Petition to save Philosophy at the University of Dundee
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More than 5,500 signatures — including over 1,100 academics at 389 universities in 46 countries.
Among them: Luciano Floridi (Yale), Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh), Edward Harcourt (Oxford), Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute), Rachel Sterken (Hong Kong), Philip Pettit (Princeton), Slavoj Žižek (Birkbeck), Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia), Catherine Malabou (Kingston), Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan), Michael Rosen (Harvard), Bonnie Honig (Brown), Simon Critchley (The New School), Eric Santner (Chicago), Christoph Menke (Frankfurt), Claire Colebrook (Monash), Ray Brassier (American University of Beirut) and Mpho Tshivhase (Pretoria).
The University has proposed suspending entry to all named Philosophy degrees at Dundee from 2027, as part of a cost-reduction exercise. Philosophy is Scotland’s only programme specialising in the European ‘Continental’ tradition, and its joint degree with Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design has no equivalent anywhere in Scotland. No decision has been taken, and the Faculty’s consultation is still open.
The Philosophy team has also put a counter-proposal to the University: a named Philosophy and AI qualification. The case for it is already on the record. Amanda Askell, a Dundee Philosophy graduate, now works on the character and values of Anthropic’s AI systems, and the Scottish Government named her one of five AI Pioneers in its AI Strategy 2026–2031.
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