The principal aim of the project was to record the state of tertiary teaching of philosophy in Australia and to provide benchmarking data on philosophy at the following levels: the teaching academics, the structure and composition of the philosophy major, and the teaching of philosophy from first year or “service” units/ subjects, through the Honours year and into postgraduate study. A further aim of the project was to continue to build networks of those philosophers interested in strategies for enhancing the curriculum and in enhancing their teaching practice. It is anticipated that this information will be used (by Heads or discipline conveners an others) in the benchmarking and planning of their own program, as well as by the profession for sharing elements/cases of best practice.

The Final Report for the Forward Thinking project includes an executive summary and contains a description of the project, including the aims, objectives, rationale and methodology, a summary of the main findings of the project and recommendations and suggestions for future projects. The Final Report for the Forward Thinking project was submitted to the ALTC in February 2010