IB PHILOSOPHY CORE THEME PRACTICE TEST
PAPER 2026 SOLVED QUESTIONS PREMIUM
REVIEW
◉ Bad Faith (Sartre). Answer: guilty of regarding oneself not as 'free'
but as an 'object. Hiding the true self
◉ The outsider (Camus). Answer: We are all outsiders who only care
about ourselves
◉ Dualism (Plato + Socrates). Answer: the body and mind are
seperate
◉ Soul. Answer: non-physical and indestructible. Means of accessing
universal forms (Plato)
◉ Method of Doubt (Descartes) (Evidence for dualism). Answer: If
you can doubt something there is something that is doubting.
Something is thinking which is certain. 'I think therefore I am'
◉ Leibniz's Law. Answer: 'Two things are identical only if they share
the exact same qualities'
, ◉ Materialism. Answer: our minds and bodies are inseperable
◉ Monism. Answer: there is only one thing that exists (rejects
dualism)
◉ Hard Materialism. Answer: Our characteristics are nothing more
than physical ones. Consciousness = brain activity.
◉ Soft Materialism. Answer: Mind and body cannot function without
each other.
◉ Brain. Answer: (hardware) a device that requires an input to
process an output
◉ Mind. Answer: (software) can be run on different platforms and
machines
◉ The Turing Test (Alan Turing). Answer: the computer must fool
you into believing it is a human. Turing believed it was possible to
create machine like a human.
◉ The Chinese Room (John Searle). Answer: The machine has no
concept of understanding, only translating with guide book. We can't
PAPER 2026 SOLVED QUESTIONS PREMIUM
REVIEW
◉ Bad Faith (Sartre). Answer: guilty of regarding oneself not as 'free'
but as an 'object. Hiding the true self
◉ The outsider (Camus). Answer: We are all outsiders who only care
about ourselves
◉ Dualism (Plato + Socrates). Answer: the body and mind are
seperate
◉ Soul. Answer: non-physical and indestructible. Means of accessing
universal forms (Plato)
◉ Method of Doubt (Descartes) (Evidence for dualism). Answer: If
you can doubt something there is something that is doubting.
Something is thinking which is certain. 'I think therefore I am'
◉ Leibniz's Law. Answer: 'Two things are identical only if they share
the exact same qualities'
, ◉ Materialism. Answer: our minds and bodies are inseperable
◉ Monism. Answer: there is only one thing that exists (rejects
dualism)
◉ Hard Materialism. Answer: Our characteristics are nothing more
than physical ones. Consciousness = brain activity.
◉ Soft Materialism. Answer: Mind and body cannot function without
each other.
◉ Brain. Answer: (hardware) a device that requires an input to
process an output
◉ Mind. Answer: (software) can be run on different platforms and
machines
◉ The Turing Test (Alan Turing). Answer: the computer must fool
you into believing it is a human. Turing believed it was possible to
create machine like a human.
◉ The Chinese Room (John Searle). Answer: The machine has no
concept of understanding, only translating with guide book. We can't
