Philosophy Topical Past Paper Questions
IB Diploma Programme Philosophy past-paper questions organised by topic, free. Each topic below is ranked by how often it’s examined. Sign in for the full topic-segregated question bank and AI worksheets.
Being Human
92 questions, 2016 to 2025
Ethics
85 questions, 2016 to 2025
Political Philosophy
76 questions, 2016 to 2025
Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex, Vol. 1 part 1, Vol. 2 part 1 and Vol. 2 part 4
80 questions, 2016 to 2025
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
80 questions, 2016 to 2025
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
80 questions, 2016 to 2025
Martha Nussbaum: Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach
80 questions, 2016 to 2025
Plato: The Republic, Books IV–IX
80 questions, 2016 to 2025
Rene Descartes: Meditations
81 questions, 2016 to 2025
Charles Taylor: The Ethics of Authenticity
80 questions, 2016 to 2025
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Genealogy of Morals
80 questions, 2016 to 2025
Epistemology
74 questions, 2016 to 2025
Philosophy of Science
74 questions, 2016 to 2025
Philosophy and Contemporary Society
73 questions, 2016 to 2025
Philosophy of Religion
72 questions, 2016 to 2025
Aesthetics
73 questions, 2016 to 2025
Ortega y Gasset: The Origins of Philosophy
72 questions, 2016 to 2025
Peter Singer: The Life You Can Save
68 questions, 2016 to 2024
David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
67 questions, 2016 to 2024
Zhuangzi: Zhuangzi
67 questions, 2016 to 2024
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks
4 questions, 2025
Jose Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses
4 questions, 2025
Alfred Jules Ayer: Language, Truth and Logic
4 questions, 2025
Confucius: The Analects
4 questions, 2025
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