Petition updateSave the Philosophy Programme at Dundee University

We now have a website for the campaign to save Philosophy at Dundee: savedundeephilosophy.org

Oisín KeohaneDundee, SCT, Reino Unido
11 ago 2026

We now have a website for the campaign to save Philosophy at Dundee: savedundeephilosophy.org
People have been asking us who signed it, so now we provide some analysis of our signatories, for instance, that among them are over 1,100 academics at 365 universities in 40 countries. The site puts every one of those institutions on a globe, so you can see our international support rather than read a number.
Here are some notable things:
The American Philosophical Association and the British Philosophical Association have written jointly in support (their letters are on the website).
All four office-holders of The Royal Institute of Philosophy have signed: Jonathan Wolff, Lucy O'Brien, Sarah Sawyer and Edward Harcourt. 
Another group who have signed are people who think about AI and human values for a living. Luciano Floridi at Yale, Shannon Vallor FRSE at Edinburgh, Edward Harcourt at Oxford, Mpho Tshivhase at Pretoria, and Brendan McCord, founder of the Cosmos Institute. This last group on AI and philosophy is relevant in particular because Dundee has put a counter-proposal to the University: a named Philosophy and AI qualification. The people best placed to judge whether that is a serious idea have already told us what they think. Our proposal is all the more relevant since Amanda Askell of Anthropic is a Dundee philosophy graduate. 

Please share the website savedundeephilosophy.org on all your channels so that we can widen our support further around the world!

-The Philosophy Team

(Side note: this is the first time I, Oisín, have designed a website using Claude, any feedback is most welcome as I continue to tweak it and learn about web development!)

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