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A-level PHILOSOPHY Paper 2 The metaphysics of God and the metaphysics of mind

Specimen Time allowed: 3 hours Materials You will need no other materials. Instructions • Use black ink or black ball-point pen. • Fill in the boxes at the top of this page. • Answer all questions. • You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write outside the box around each

page or in the blank pages. • Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked. Information • The marks for questions are shown in brackets. • The maximum mark for this paper is 100. • You will be assessed on your ability to:

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Section A – The metaphysics of God

Answer all questions in this section.

0 1 Explain the difference between the claims ‘God is eternal’ and ‘God is everlasting’. [3 marks]

0 2 Explain the evidential problem of evil. [5 marks]

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0 3 Outline Aquinas’ Third Way. [5 marks]

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0 4 Compare and contrast Paley’s and Swinburne’s versions of the design argument. [12 marks]

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0 5 Is religious language meaningful? [25 marks]

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Section B – The metaphysics of mind

Answer all questions in this section.

0 6 What do eliminative materialists claim about mental states? [3 marks]

0 7 Outline Descartes’ conceivability argument for substance dualism. [5 marks]

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0 8 Explain how Block’s China thought experiment can be used to argue against

functionalism. [5 marks]

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0 9 Outline mind-brain type identity theory and explain how the issue of multiple realisability challenges this view.

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1 0 Does philosophical behaviourism give the correct account of mental states? [25 marks]

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