Will - Philosophy tutor - Thornbury
Will - Philosophy tutor - Thornbury

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Will - Philosophy tutor - Thornbury

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  • Philosophy
  • Feminism
  • Humanities General
  • History of Philosophy

Help me put my degree to some use by helping you understand abstract concepts in the (for lack of a better term) social sciences!

  • Philosophy
  • Feminism
  • Humanities General
  • History of Philosophy

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About Will

There is always something rather daunting about 'About you's, it calls for a level of introspection that I usually try and avoid!
My name is Will and I'm a 27 year old university student. I started going to uni with no real plan, I just wanted to learn and see where things took me. Since then I have been at uni for almost four years just taking a variety of different courses and investigating different ways of thinking.

Uni for me was never about the degree (the end point) it has been about the learning. The opening up of different perspectives that I have never thought of before. I have studied everything from Modern Middle Eastern Politics, religion, gender and sexuality, philosophy and Australian history just to name a few finishing each of these with a HD average.

I am not looking to tutor in the traditional way. For example lets say that you need to get an understanding of Judith Butler's 'gender performativity'. I could merely give you a boring definition, but there is absolutely no fun in that. Instead we would interrogate the term using a mixture of primary and secondary sources. Anchor the theory in a moment of intellectual development, and then look at the ramifications that that has had.

Philosophy is complex enough without the additional challenge of describing theories without context

In my personal time I am working on a project of telling the story of Australia but situating it within the broader operations of the world.

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  • Preparatory
  • Undergraduate
  • Masters
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    Preparatory

    Undergraduate

    Masters

  • English

All languages in which the lesson is available :

English

I have been at university for almost four years taking a wide variety of subjects in the broad categories of social sciences. I started with political science, then moved more into the realm of philosophy with a more central concern with Gender and broader systems of thought.

As it stands I am just at university because I love learning and just investigating different ways of thinking, and I like to think through that time I have developed a rather unique way of looking at the world.

Philosophy is a broad subject so any sort of tutoring will very much depend on the specific scholars of theories that are being presented, but if I know them I will happily tailor any lesson to any specific problem that you may encounter.

The thinkers I have spent the longest with are people like

- Michel Foucault
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
-Sigmund Freud
-Judith Butler
-Simone de Beauviour
-Richard Rorty

the list goes on and on. I have a very cosmopolitan view of learning, and truly believe that nothing can be learnt in isolation. To truly understand a theory you have to understand all that is said and unsaid in the piece. There is this tendency in philosophy to remove the theory from the historicised local of its inception. This elevates it to something more than it is. One (usually mans) musings about the world.

But yeah if you give me the book/chapter/theory that you are working on I will research it and build a plan to help you not only understand, but understand in a rather unique way.

This would be suitable for anyone at an undergraduate level, maybe above, but that very much depends on the thinker. For example I would be fine with Foucault, but abysmal with Kant!

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