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Every question from every AQA A-Level Philosophy paper, 2020–2025, question by question. Filter by topic, paper or year, open the mark scheme under any question, and download a set as a PDF. AQA no longer publishes June 2019, the A-Level’s first series, or its AS papers, so they aren’t here.
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![June 2025 Paper 1, question 01: What is the difference between analytic truths and synthetic truths? [3 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71721-jun25-01-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 1, question 02: Explain the tripartite view of propositional knowledge. [5 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71721-jun25-02-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 1, question 03: Explain how local scepticism and global scepticism are similar and how they are different. [5 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71721-jun25-03-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 1, question 04: Explain Leibniz’s innatism and one of Locke’s arguments against this position. [12 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71721-jun25-04-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 1, question 05: Is indirect realism convincing? [25 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71721-jun25-05-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 1, question 06: What, for Aristotle, is the difference between voluntary and involuntary actions? [3 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71721-jun25-06-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 1, question 07: Explain the difference between act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism. [5 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71721-jun25-07-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 1, question 08: Explain what Aristotle means by ‘eudaimonia’. [5 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71721-jun25-08-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 1, question 09: Explain Kant’s first formulation of the categorical imperative and explain the issue that not all universalisable maxims are distinctly moral. [12 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71721-jun25-09-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 1, question 10: Are moral realists right to claim that mind-independent moral facts/properties exist? [25 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71721-jun25-10-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 2, question 01: State the difference between God being everlasting and God being eternal. [3 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71722-jun25-01-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 2, question 02: Explain Aquinas’ Second Way (his argument from atemporal causation). [5 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71722-jun25-02-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 2, question 03: Explain Basil Mitchell’s view about religious language using his ‘Partisan’ story. [5 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71722-jun25-03-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 2, question 04: Explain the evidential problem of evil and explain how Hick responds using the idea of soul-making. [12 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71722-jun25-04-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 2, question 05: Is the teleological/design argument for the existence of God persuasive? [25 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71722-jun25-05-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 2, question 06: State what mind-brain type identity theory claims about mental states. [3 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71722-jun25-06-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 2, question 07: Explain one similarity and one difference between interactionist dualism and epiphenomenalist dualism. [5 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71722-jun25-07-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 2, question 08: Explain Ryle’s ‘soft’ philosophical behaviourism. [5 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71722-jun25-08-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 2, question 09: Explain eliminative materialism and explain how it can be argued that it is self-refuting as a theory. [12 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71722-jun25-09-qp.webp)
![June 2025 Paper 2, question 10: Are functionalists right to claim that all mental states can be characterised in terms of functional roles? [25 marks]](https://pub-e8a9dbab8e2a4d089f52b2a45e0d0b50.r2.dev/bank/71722-jun25-10-qp.webp)
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