I'm Stephen Burwood and I teach on the Philosophy programmes at Hull.
In terms of doing Philosophy, I would say that Philosophy
is the subject that reaches parts other subjects don't reach.
And yet these questions lie all around
us, in the world, in our culture.
You encounter them day to day.
So doing Philosophy, we don't simply allow you
to ask these questions, we encourage you to ask these questions.
And the benefit of that is it equips you for life,
but it also equips you for what will be an important development
in the graduate job market, namely the advent of Artificial Intelligence.
Philosophy, in tackling these fundamental questions,
equips you with the sorts of habits of mind, intellectual skills,
argumentative skills, problem solving skills and so on
that are going to be important in the graduate job market.
Why do it at Hull?
Well, we maybe specialise in a couple of areas
that are unique to us, or at least uncommon,
namely Environmental Philosophy and Gender Theory.
If I was asked
what was, what's
distinctive about the provision at Hull, what I would say
is that if you came to Hull, you’d be a name and not a number.
That's to say what we have a tradition of offering
is a really good academic support for our students.
So the relationship between staff and students
is friendly, informal and supportive.
And this is shown in the way that many students actually progress
onto doing postgraduate courses
and successful careers after graduation.