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- Philosophy studies
how things hang together at
the most fundamental level.
That might be examining moral
or political values, it might be examining
the fundamental constituents of reality.
What Philosophy does is
look behind the curtain
and ask the toughest questions
that no other subject can address.
- Another thing that's special
about Philosophy at Cambridge
is the particular way
in which you're taught
in very small groups
often one-on-one is what
your supervisions might
be in Philosophy and so that means
that you really have the opportunity
to explore your thinking
on a particular topic.
- What I love about the
Philosophy course is the fact
that it acknowledges that
philosophy is such a broad subject
from epistemology to metaphysics
to classical philosophy,
it gives undergraduates a
chance to specialise in a field.
- Well I really love philosophy
and I'm also really intrigued
by the analytic tradition
that the faculty here has.
Philosophy at Cambridge has brought about,
there's loads of famous philosophers
which really intrigue
me, really interest me.
- The Philosophy course at Cambridge
is a three year programme of study
that tackles some of the
most fundamental questions.
Questions about freedom and justice,
about consciousness and the mind,
about the ultimate nature
of reality and about logic,
reason and truth itself.
- So as students move through the course,
they move from being given a kind
of background in those
core concepts and tools
to having the opportunity to really choose
for themselves the kinds of topics
that they're interested in
and put together their own course.
- Philosophy is taught
partly through lectures,
partly through seminars and
of course the very distinctive
thing about Cambridge is
that it is also taught by
individual supervisions.
- Just you and an expert in
a given subject and grapple
with incredibly complex,
incredibly difficult intellectual problems
and get specialised, personalised
feedback on your own work.
- The facilities and resources
for Philosophy here are really good.
We have access to a
range of different books,
any book you can really think of.
- Obviously you've got
the University Library
that's got a copy of
pretty much every book
that's ever been printed in the UK.
- A typical week is full of lectures,
seminars and supervisions, also a lot
of independent work which I quite enjoy.
- The main bulk of my week is
writing my supervision essay.
You usually do one essay every week,
so we'll have a list of
readings to do and then I'll go
to my supervision and discuss
the essay with my supervisor.
- In my spare time I actually cox
for my College rowing team.
- Outside of Philosophy I
run a weekly radio show.
- Cambridge has got a
really good theatre scene
and I found that a really good way
to sort of keep doing something creative
and a bit more expressive while
I was doing the academic side of things.
- Employers look on Philosophy
graduates very favourably
because they come out with a set of skills
that can be applied to a wide
range of different careers.
- They often go into
finance, law, consultancy,
they can go into the civil service,
they can work for NGO's and charities.
- So my plans for after graduation are
to study human rights and then after
that I'd really like to go into
the field, help people out,
especially within LGBTQ+ communities
because that's an area of interest for me.
- It's a very welcoming place.
If you like philosophy
you'll be very happy here.
- There are so many opportunities
to broaden your knowledge,
explore philosophy and truly fall in love
with what you want to study.
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