Functionalism. 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 | — | — | Q03Explain how Block's China thought experiment can be used to argue against functionalism. | — | — |
| 2019 | — | Q02Outline how the 'knowledge/Mary argument' can be applied to functional facts. | — | — | — |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — | Q05Does functionalism give a convincing account of mental states? |
| 2021 | Q01What does functionalism claim about mental states? | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | — | Q02Explain the 'inverted qualia' objection to functionalism. | — | — | — |
| 2023 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2024 | Q01What do functionalists mean when they claim that mental states can be multiply realised? | — | — | — | — |
| 2025 | — | — | — | — | Q05Are functionalists right to claim that all mental states can be characterised in terms of functional roles? |
| 2026 | — | — | Q03Explain how the 'knowledge'/Mary argument can be applied as an objection to functionalism. | — | — |
Read your answer as the examiner will. Which of these would they write beside it?