One unit, one argument — in three steps. What is a person? How do mind and body relate? And could anything of you survive your death?
If I am nothing but a body and a brain, what could possibly survive my death — and would it still be me?
Every lesson in this unit lines up on the same axis — from soul fully separable (survival easy to explain, science hard) to no soul at all (science easy, the conscious ‘I’ hard). Pick a sub-topic, then tap a position to see what it claims and where it's strong or weak.
Tap a circle — or use Tab and Enter — to explore each position.
Top answers don't treat the three lessons separately. Three ideas run through all of them — spot the thread and you're writing at the top of the mark scheme.
Every view trades scientific credibility against the survival of the conscious ‘I’. Gain one, lose the other.
Why do brain processes feel like anything at all? Every physicalist account still has to answer this — none has.
Showing survival is possible is not showing it would be you. Most weak answers prove the first and forget the second.
The unit splits into three lessons. Each answers a different question — but every answer decides the next one.
Everything for the unit, in one place. Open a sub-topic's lesson, booklet and podcast, and use the Philosopher Companion across all three.
LINKS list near the bottom, and paste each SharePoint share link once. Buttons with no link show as “Link not set”.
Use your resources in this order. The Philosopher Companion is where you learn to plan both question types.
One podcast per sub-topic — a teacher and student talk each view through to a judgement. Annotate as you listen.
Read the given text, write the key claims in your own words, then decide the strength and weakness you'd give each view.
In the Companion: match each term to its meaning, then use it in a sentence. RAG-rate the mastery checklist with the three faces.
Use the Companion frameworks and the guidance-left / your-turn-right scaffolds. Never evaluate what you haven't first explained.
A full review of Self, Death & the Afterlife — the soul, the body/soul relationship and life after death. Best watched before you start revising, then again to check your recall.
Teacher: paste the YouTube link in the VIDEO_URL line near the bottom of this file. The player then appears here automatically.
Flip a card to check yourself. Switch between key terms (term → meaning) and views (view → claim, strength & weakness), and filter by sub-topic.