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Reason and Experience

Innate ideas and nativism
Innate Knowledge
Empiricism
Hume's Enquiry

Rationalism
Skinner and Chomsky 
Sapir Whorf 
Conceptual schemes 1
Reason and experience mark scheme
Rationalism v Empiricism 
Reason and Experience 15 mark model answers
Reason and Experience 30 mark model answers

Why Should I Be Moral?

Deontology

Utilitarianism

Virtue Ethics
Ethical Egoism
Social Contract
The State of Nature from Hobbes to Hume
Self-interest mark scheme
Why should I be moral model answers

Moral Philosophy
Hume's moral philosophy

Knowledge of the External World

Knowledge of the external world 1
Knowledge of the external world 2

Knowledge of the external world 3

Knowledge of the external world 4

Knowledge of the external world 5
Descartes' Wax example
Representative Realism Mark Scheme
Grass is Green Mark Scheme
Knowledge of the external world 15 mark model answers
Knowledge of the external world 30 mark model answers

Free Will and Determinism
Compatibilism
Incompatibilism
The illusion of free will (New Scientist article)
Free Will and Determinism mark scheme
Free will and determinism 15 mark model answers
Free will and determinism 30 mark model answers

AQA Paper 2 model anwers with comments

Philosophy of Mind
Distinguishing the mental from the physical
Are mental states brain states?
Dualist approaches
Mind Brain Identity theory
Logical behaviourism
Functionalism
Assess functionalism mark scheme
Wittgenstein and the Private language argument
The easy and the hard problem of consciousness

Hume - Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Of the Origin of Ideas 

Of the Association of Ideas

Sceptical Doubts

Solution to Sceptical Doubts

Of Probability

Necessary Connection

Of Liberty and Necessity