Dualist theories. 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 | — | Q02Outline Descartes' conceivability argument for substance dualism. | — | — | — |
| 2019 | — | — | — | Q04Explain the philosophical zombies argument and the response that what is conceivable may not be metaphysically possible. | — |
| 2020 | — | — | Q03Outline Descartes' indivisibility argument for substance dualism. | Q04Outline epiphenomenalist dualism and explain the challenge posed by introspective self-knowledge. | — |
| 2021 | — | — | Q03Explain how natural selection/evolution poses a challenge for epiphenomenalist dualism. | — | Q05Can a dualist account of mental states be successfully defended? |
| 2022 | Q01What is a philosophical zombie? | — | — | Q04Explain the 'knowledge/Mary' argument (for property dualism) and the response that Mary gains acquaintance knowledge rather than propositional knowledge. | — |
| 2023 | — | — | — | Q04Explain the 'problem of other minds' facing dualism and the response that the existence of other minds is the best hypothesis. | — |
| 2024 | — | Q02Explain Descartes' conceivability argument for substance dualism. | — | Q04Explain interactionist dualism and the empirical interaction problem facing it. | — |
| 2025 | — | Q02Explain one similarity and one difference between interactionist dualism and epiphenomenalist dualism. | — | — | — |
| 2026 | Q01What is interactionist dualism? | — | — | — | — |
Read your answer as the examiner will. Which of these would they write beside it?