Meta-ethics. One lesson at a time: listen to the episode, play the three games until the streak holds, then write to a real past-paper question in the time the exam gives you.
Specimen to 2026, by tariff. A dash means that year's question at that tariff was on another unit of the same section.
| Year | 3 marks | 5 marks | 5 marks | 12 marks | 25 marks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Specimen | — | Q02Explain why emotivism is a non-cognitivist theory of ethical language. | — | — | — |
| 2019 | Q01What is moral anti-realism? | — | Q03Explain why Hume thinks that moral judgements are not beliefs. | — | — |
| 2020 | Q01Outline Ayer's verification principle. | — | Q03Explain Moore's 'open question argument'. | — | — |
| 2021 | Q01What is the difference between cognitivism and non-cognitivism about ethical language? | — | Q03Explain what Mackie's error theory claims. | — | — |
| 2022 | — | — | — | — | Q05Is moral anti-realism the correct metaethical view? |
| 2023 | Q01What is the difference between moral naturalism and moral non-naturalism? | — | Q03Explain Hare's prescriptivism. | — | — |
| 2024 | Q01State Ayer's verification principle. | — | Q03Explain Mackie's argument from relativity against moral realism. | — | — |
| 2025 | — | — | — | — | Q05Are moral realists right to claim that mind-independent moral facts/properties exist? |
| 2026 | Q01What is moral realism? | — | — | Q04Explain Ayer's emotivism and the issue that Ayer's emotivism cannot account for how we use moral language. | — |
Read your answer as the examiner will. Which of these would they write beside it?