PHIL1004: Fundamental Ideas in Philosophy: An Introduction

tutorial participation 10%, essay 1 20%, essay 2 30%, final exam 40%
The format for the final exam asked us to write 3 essays answering 3 questions regarding the readings we studied in class.

This subject is a great course to the introduction of philosophy! Because this is an intro course it takes a few readings from a variety of different areas: God, knowledge, mind-body problem, personal identity, human nature, freedom and morality. You look at a variety of different philosophers and their works (each lecture, mainly, she will talk about the main views/arguments put forward by the philosopher). Many ideas and objections are also presented in class and she also asks questions in lectures about our opinions and views too. This does lead to quite some lively discussions in tutorials too (although I didn't really take part). I would recommend this course to anyone who's even slightly interested in philosophy. You don't need to have studied philosophy or any experience before, and this subject gets you to think critically/in a different way

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Dr Bronwyn Finnigan.
Bronwyn's lecture deliveries are quite different to your typical lecturer (well so far from experience). Her slides are very colourful and engaging so if you like that kind of stuff, then you'll like it. She is also fairly easy to follow along and she seems like a super nice person some weeks there may be guest lecturers

no, but possible exam questions were released

3.5 Out of 5

no textbooks for this course just do the readings provided by the lecturer on Wattle
I would, however, recommend that you do the readings though. Quite a few of the readings may be somewhat complex to understand but it gets explained in the lecture. It is possible to get by this class without doing the readings, but still, just do the readings anyway.
Additional readings are also provided but tbh, I couldn't find time to do them but if you're interested you should.

2x1hr lectures and a 1hr tutorial per week

Semester 1 2017