British Philosophical Association

Alessandra Tanesini, a member of our Executive Committee, has sent a letter on behalf of all Russell Group philosophy department heads to Rick Trainor (Principal) and Lord Douro (Chair of Council). You can read the letter here.

An update on the situation at KCL, including a link to the document outlining the restructuring plans, can be found on the Leiter Reports blog here. Further information, and links to an impressive and growing list of letters of support that have been sent, can be found here.

KCL are planning to make two members of the Philosophy Department redundant, and more redundancies are in the pipeline as a cost-cutting measure across the Humanities. The BPA, together with a number of UK learned societies, have sent this letter to the Principal (Rick Trainor) and the Chair of Council (Lord Douro).

UPDATE 12.2.10: This letter has also been endorsed by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion, and the British Wittgenstein Society.

A website has been set up by King’s philosophy students; there you can find more information and sign their letter to the College authorities protesting at the cuts.

You can read our response to HEFCE’s consultation on the Research Excellence Framework here.

We are pleased to launch our new ‘Philosophical Answers’ site, aimed at helping schoolteachers of philosophy. If you are a schoolteacher, please check it out; if you know any, please tell them about it.

You can read our position paper here; also the notes from the meeting we held in late October are here.