Author Archives: phallward

3 May 2010 Dear Dean, I wish to add my voice to those who have protested against the threatened closure of Middlesex philosophy department. You may say that it is unsurprising that a philosopher should object to this move, but … Continue reading →

29 April 2010 Dear Ed Esche I have heard that the Centre for research in modern european philosophy at Middlesex is to be closed. This strikes me as more than strange. It is one of the most interesting ventures of … Continue reading →

1 May 2010 Dear Sirs, Madam, Birkbeck UCU notes with dismay the decision of the Dean of the School of Arts and Education at Middlesex University to close the university’s renowned philosophy department. The reaction of colleagues and students across … Continue reading →

29 April 2010 Dear Vice-Chancellors and Dean of School, I write to express my astonishment and indignation at the recent news of the imminent closure of philosophy at Middlesex. As someone who has taught literary theory and continental philosophy in … Continue reading →

1 May 2010 Dear Professor Driscoll, This is a letter that follows up from the email that, together with my colleagues Professors Ansell-Pearson and Houlgate, we sent you yesterday. The more I think about your decision, the more I find … Continue reading →

30 April 2010 Dear Michael Driscoll, Waqar Ahmad, Margaret House & Ed Esche, Your decision to close the philosophy department and the CRMEP at Middlesex is inexplicable and disgraceful. For decades philosophy at Middlesex has been reknowned not simply as … Continue reading →

Dear Professors Driscoll, Ahmad, House and Esche, We the undersigned are stunned to hear of the decision by Middlesex University to close the CRMEP.  The research produced by CRMEP scholars has been invaluable in the field and far reaching. Among … Continue reading →

To the right honourable Chancellors and Dean of Middlesex University, London (UK) Paris, April 28, 2010 Chancellors and Dean, With utmost surprise I learn that Middlesex University has decided to close all its Philosophy programmes. I deplore this decision and … Continue reading →

Dear Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellors, and Dean, I am writing to register my profound concern and disbelief at the news that Middlesex University is to close its programmes in Philosophy. I find it hard to believe that an institution avowedly committed … Continue reading →

30 April 2010 Dear Vice-Chancellor As members of the international philosophical community, and as the Executive Committee of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, we write to express our dismay at the decision by Middlesex University to close its Department … Continue reading →