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29 April 2010 Dear Michael Driscoll, Waqar Ahmad, Margaret House & Ed Esche, This morning, as I sheltered from the rain under the cosy eves of the Politics Department at Rhodes University in Grahamstown in South Africa, there was only … Continue reading →

30 April 2010 Dear Michael Driscoll, I am writing to you in order to complain strongly about your decision to terminate the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex. My interest in this matter is twofold. First of … Continue reading →

m.driscoll@mdx.ac.uk, w.ahmad@mdx.ac.uk, m.house@mdx.ac.uk, e.esche@mdx.ac.uk Sun, May 2, 2010 It was with astonishment that we in the Brazilian philosophical and scientific communities heard the shocking news of the intention to close the Department of Philosophy at Middlesex University in London. Several … Continue reading →

Michael Driscoll,Vice-Chancellor of the University Waqar Ahmad, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise Margaret House, Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic Ed Esche, Dean of the School of Arts & Education Middlesex University in London The Burroughs London NW4 4BT Dear Colleagues It … Continue reading →

29 April 2010 Dear Professors The philosophy department at Middlesex University is an internationally recognized center of excellence. The research carried out there has influenced fields from literature to the sciences to my own domain, African studies. I have no … Continue reading →

m.driscoll@mdx.ac.uk, w.ahmad@mdx.ac.uk, m.house@mdx.ac.uk, e.esche@mdx.ac.uk Apr 30, 2010 at 2:10 P Dear colleagues, I am writing to you to express my dismay at the abrupt closure of the Philosophy programme at Middlesex University. Middlesex has been an important institution for philosophy. … Continue reading →

29 April 2010 Dear Professor Driscoll, Professor Ahmad, Professor House, and Professor Esche, I am writing to protest at the decision to close the philosophy department at Middlesex University and to urge you to urgently reconsider. My reason for writing … Continue reading →

30 April 2010 Dear Professor Esche, I understand that the Middlesex University, under your recommendation, has decided to abolish its Philosophy Department and with it the Centre for Modern European Philosophy. The reasons given for the decision are said to … Continue reading →

29 April 2010 Dear Colleagues, I was shocked and dismayed to learn today of the abrupt closure of the Philosophy programmes at Middlesex University. In the field of European Philosophy,  Middlesex clearly and by any measure I am aware of … Continue reading →

29 April 2010 Dear Sirs and Madam, I am personally appalled to learn of your decision to close down Philosophy at Middlesex University.  How is it possible that a department and its Research Centre which by all accounts is at … Continue reading →