Save Philosophy at the University of Northampton Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/save-philosophy-at-the-university-of-northampton.html Online petition signatures en-us Sat, 4 Apr 2026 02:27 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Bernard Hurley [Signature #629] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15221730?utm_medium=rss Thu, 9 May 2013 03:40:08 UTC 15221730 Dr Margaret Andrews [Signature #628] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14254657?utm_medium=rss Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:54:27 UTC 14254657 Mr Anonymous [Signature #627] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14202438?utm_medium=rss Sat, 8 Dec 2012 12:50:09 UTC 14202438 Mr Andy Holland [Signature #626] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/13381120?utm_medium=rss The unexamined life is not worth living.

]]> Sun, 22 Jul 2012 04:24:58 UTC 13381120 Mr. John Doe [Signature #625] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12729645?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 May 2012 09:05:29 UTC 12729645 Mr. Ardavon Naimi [Signature #624] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12612727?utm_medium=rss Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:41:00 UTC 12612727 Mr Christopher Loughrey [Signature #623] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12423736?utm_medium=rss Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:12:02 UTC 12423736 Callum Cooper [Signature #622] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12314217?utm_medium=rss Sun, 4 Mar 2012 04:48:16 UTC 12314217 Miss Ellen Birmingham [Signature #621] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12254495?utm_medium=rss Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:08:45 UTC 12254495 Miss Hannah Galea-bateman [Signature #620] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12132949?utm_medium=rss Fri, 3 Feb 2012 05:25:47 UTC 12132949 Julija Caruka [Signature #619] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12125037?utm_medium=rss I am studying Accounting and Finance and even in my subject philosophy is useful because philosophy is the core subjest which is related to all another. Philosophy is all about our thinking, our behavior, actions and much more. Our way of communication which is important and useful to many jobs is connected with philosophy. If the university department will be closed we gradually will just end up in break down of education system.

]]> Wed, 1 Feb 2012 01:12:48 UTC 12125037 Ms Gisela Al-Hajjar [Signature #618] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12095358?utm_medium=rss Philosophy provides the grounding for all academic contributions, notably research in various fields of the Humanities and Sciences. How can a University provide education without ethics and philosophical grounding?

]]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:01:05 UTC 12095358 Ms Anonymous [Signature #617] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12093600?utm_medium=rss Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:22:39 UTC 12093600 Miss Emma Carpendale [Signature #616] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/12093513?utm_medium=rss Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:56:37 UTC 12093513 Miss Hannah Inkin [Signature #615] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11929142?utm_medium=rss Good luck!

]]> Tue, 3 Jan 2012 07:55:14 UTC 11929142 Mr Philip Smith [Signature #614] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11925238?utm_medium=rss Philosophy is a great subject that ought to be taught in all educational institutions from secondary school onwards!

]]> Mon, 2 Jan 2012 01:04:14 UTC 11925238 Miss Krisztina Nagy [Signature #613] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11924567?utm_medium=rss The closure would make it impossible for local students to study Philosophy whilst staying at home. Moreover, other Universities are closing this department too, meaning choice is more restricted and if Northampto keeps the course open for applicatios, the number of applicants may be higher than previously - it would be worth a try for just one more year to keep them open...

Good luck for the "saviours"!

]]> Mon, 2 Jan 2012 11:09:56 UTC 11924567 David Morey BA FCCA [Signature #612] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11924137?utm_medium=rss Should we see Northampton as a University if it does not teach philosophy?

]]> Mon, 2 Jan 2012 09:32:29 UTC 11924137 MR Adam Palmer [Signature #611] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11890715?utm_medium=rss Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:40:50 UTC 11890715 Dr Jim Urpeth [Signature #610] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11880559?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:35:57 UTC 11880559 Vangeesa Sumanasekara [Signature #609] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11851189?utm_medium=rss Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:18:01 UTC 11851189 Dr William McEvoy [Signature #608] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11851170?utm_medium=rss The subject is the cornerstone of the intellectual life of a university. Closing a department is a form of vandalism and a scandal.

]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:16:31 UTC 11851170 Mrs Deziré Pont [Signature #607] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11742858?utm_medium=rss Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:12:18 UTC 11742858 Mrs Robin Harragin [Signature #606] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11720541?utm_medium=rss I am a Philosophy A level teacher and have students who are applying to Nottingham for the philosophy course. Please keep the department open.

]]> Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:05:54 UTC 11720541 Iain Cameron [Signature #605] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11716943?utm_medium=rss Intellectual democracy starts with philosophy. All authoritarian states are fearful of ideas

]]> Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:31:05 UTC 11716943 Eran Tal [Signature #604] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11714779?utm_medium=rss Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:40:00 UTC 11714779 Colin Purkey [Signature #603] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11707430?utm_medium=rss It is very shortsighted to close down the departments at a time when we need precisely the skills that these departments can offer in this time of social, political and economic crisis.

]]> Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:12:38 UTC 11707430 Mr Matthew Lloyd [Signature #602] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11704225?utm_medium=rss Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:55:47 UTC 11704225 Izzy John [Signature #601] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11704207?utm_medium=rss Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:50:38 UTC 11704207 Simon Hewitt [Signature #600] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11701308?utm_medium=rss Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:10:41 UTC 11701308 Miss Joanne Norvock [Signature #599] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11688892?utm_medium=rss Best course I ever chose at Nene - would be a travesty to close a Department that opens the mind. Loved John Gingell too! xx

]]> Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:36:42 UTC 11688892 Mr Michael Nurse [Signature #598] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11685913?utm_medium=rss Philosophy informs all other areas of knowledge; without the depth of enquiry that philosophers provide a valuable benchmark would be lost and all academic subjects would be impoverished.

]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:38:05 UTC 11685913 Ms Nicky Ferguson [Signature #597] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11676240?utm_medium=rss As a former student at the college I am disgusted that anyone could think of shutting a department that has contributed so much and produced so many fine students. A department that studies humanity is never a luxury item and it would be the sign of a discent into barbarism to make cuts to such studies. The college serves an extremely large town and business profits from the presence of the college. It pays for itself and cuts are stupid.

]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:33:49 UTC 11676240 DR JOSEPH FEARN [Signature #596] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11675232?utm_medium=rss I DID MY PH.D IN PHILOSOPHY AT THE NENE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND GRADUATED IN 2001.

]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:50:37 UTC 11675232 Mr Frederick Holman [Signature #595] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11674918?utm_medium=rss All bona fide universities research and teach philosophy. Do you really want to reduce your institution down to the status of a polytechnic in the eyes of the world?

]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:37:22 UTC 11674918 Alan Brown [Signature #594] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11672333?utm_medium=rss Philosophy is not an expendable indulgence.

]]> Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:08:56 UTC 11672333 Ms Georgina Harris [Signature #593] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11671011?utm_medium=rss Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:36:09 UTC 11671011 Dr Bill Fish [Signature #592] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11662514?utm_medium=rss Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:32:11 UTC 11662514 Dr. Flavia Padovani [Signature #591] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11659014?utm_medium=rss Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:36:36 UTC 11659014 Mr Michael Bavidge [Signature #590] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11656061?utm_medium=rss Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:27:27 UTC 11656061 DR MARJORIE GRACIEUSE [Signature #589] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11653322?utm_medium=rss Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:22:55 UTC 11653322 Dr Sue Blundell [Signature #588] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11647293?utm_medium=rss Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:20:26 UTC 11647293 Mr Steve Foulger [Signature #587] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11632080?utm_medium=rss When a University feels that philosophy is not a valid subject then we know that the barbarians have taken over the academy. Sapere Aude!

]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:02:55 UTC 11632080 Mr Roger Sutcliffe [Signature #586] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11630028?utm_medium=rss A question to whomever is involved in this decision: what is your philosophy (of education, or of life) by which you can even contemplate continuing as a University without having a formal place in it for philosophy as a pursuit? I might add that, whatever it is, it would seem to lack precisely the discipline of constructive self-criticism that philosophy, of all pursuits, best exemplifies.

]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:59:06 UTC 11630028 miss Melina lafirenze [Signature #585] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11628561?utm_medium=rss Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:48:08 UTC 11628561 Ms Lucy Weir Bingham McAndrew [Signature #584] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11627886?utm_medium=rss Philosophy is the only subject whose aim is to teach how to question premises. Without it, we make blind assumptions about the way that the world is and how human values relate to it. The evolutionary tool which got us to where we are is thinking. If we cannot make thinking an integral part of our educational system, we cannot hope to create populations which are able to intelligently reflect on their worlds. Education without philosophy is stagnant.

]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:03:05 UTC 11627886 Mr Dharmender Dhillon [Signature #583] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11627373?utm_medium=rss Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:23:00 UTC 11627373 Dr Charlie Blakeb [Signature #582] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11626920?utm_medium=rss "Philosophy is the desire to be at home everywhere." (Novalis) An esential tool for living in the 21st century. The department should be expanding!

]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:48:15 UTC 11626920 Mr Tom Wellburn [Signature #581] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11618866?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:41:56 UTC 11618866 Mr Toby Howett [Signature #580] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11605962?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:16:38 UTC 11605962 Ms Stephanie Silverman [Signature #579] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11603369?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:38:51 UTC 11603369 Mr Terence Barnell [Signature #578] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11581828?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:23:25 UTC 11581828 Patricia Erb [Signature #577] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11571158?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:44:16 UTC 11571158 Tracy Cook [Signature #576] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11557768?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:48:43 UTC 11557768 Mr Jordan Adshead [Signature #575] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11530382?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:01:02 UTC 11530382 miss naomi cowan [Signature #574] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11522516?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:56:43 UTC 11522516 Dr Meade McCloughan [Signature #573] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11520762?utm_medium=rss University College London / London School of Philosophy

]]> Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:30:02 UTC 11520762 Miss Amy Clift [Signature #572] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11520209?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:14:52 UTC 11520209 Miss Stephanie Frost [Signature #571] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11520200?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:13:07 UTC 11520200 Miss Frances Fairbairn [Signature #570] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11519897?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:21:49 UTC 11519897 Rebecca Drew [Signature #569] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11518872?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:12:04 UTC 11518872 Loren McManamon [Signature #568] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11518837?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:05:24 UTC 11518837 Miss Jasmine Hide [Signature #567] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11518836?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:04:43 UTC 11518836 Ms Elli Mills [Signature #566] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11518806?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:58:14 UTC 11518806 Ms Helen Henwood [Signature #565] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11518493?utm_medium=rss I was a student on this excellent Philosophy course some years ago. The benefits of studying Philosophy remain with you for life. You learn to think critically, to analyse, to develop the skill of constructing a cogent argument and to debate the fundamental questions about our lives. Moreover, Philosophy provides a valuable training for a broad range of careers, something frequently acknowledged by employers. We will be academically impoverished without this course.

]]> Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:07:10 UTC 11518493 DR Kevin Magill [Signature #564] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11518373?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:42:41 UTC 11518373 Prof Morwenna Griffiths [Signature #563] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11518074?utm_medium=rss Philosophy is not only worthwhile in its own right but also as yeast to other disciiplines which draw on it for e.g. research methods, ethics, critical thinking.

]]> Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:48:58 UTC 11518074 Dr Anja Steinbauer [Signature #562] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11517658?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:19:37 UTC 11517658 Mark Broomhall [Signature #561] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11517545?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:51:21 UTC 11517545 Ms Diane Priestnall [Signature #560] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11517447?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:30:24 UTC 11517447 Dr Sarah Houghton-Walker [Signature #559] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11517298?utm_medium=rss Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:45:29 UTC 11517298 Dr Carolyn Price [Signature #558] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11517079?utm_medium=rss I visited Northampton in 2010 to give a talk to Philosophy students and staff. I was very impressed by the engagement of the students and the energy and commitment of the staff. The closure of the programme would be remove something very valuable from the University.

]]> Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:37:16 UTC 11517079 Ms Jordan Blank [Signature #557] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11515471?utm_medium=rss Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:23:39 UTC 11515471 MR Anonymous [Signature #556] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11513759?utm_medium=rss Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:34:00 UTC 11513759 Ms Jac Higgs [Signature #555] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11513321?utm_medium=rss Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:09:59 UTC 11513321 Dr Havi Carel [Signature #554] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11513268?utm_medium=rss Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:58:37 UTC 11513268 Dr Clifford Stagoll [Signature #553] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11511219?utm_medium=rss As a senior manager in a large mining company, I simply cannot understand the tendency for universities to close programs in the humanities. My most effective staff come from academic backgrounds other than business, and its seems no coincidence that the capacity to speak beyond cliche, the ability to generate genuine alternatives to business problems and so on come from such programs. This particular program has a solid reputation, and so the decision is most puzzling. Please reconsider.

]]> Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:53:43 UTC 11511219 Mr Joshua Mills [Signature #552] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11509242?utm_medium=rss I think that philosophy is a great course and i have thoroughly enjoyed studying it, i studied it at A Levels and it interested me so much that i chose to continue studying it at higher education, i think that it interests many people, this can be seen with the people that continue to do it every year, i do not think that this course should be cut from the university of Northampton.

]]> Sun, 13 Nov 2011 08:03:37 UTC 11509242 Mr Anthony Stace [Signature #551] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11507532?utm_medium=rss Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:30:04 UTC 11507532 Dr Shuja Ahmad [Signature #550] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11506670?utm_medium=rss It is sad to learn that university of Northampton has decided to close Philosophy department. Whereas, universities in Pakistan, realizing the importance of philosophy, are introducing courses of philosophy in almost all the departments.

]]> Sun, 13 Nov 2011 07:46:05 UTC 11506670 Dr Richard Gray [Signature #549] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11506601?utm_medium=rss Sun, 13 Nov 2011 07:29:49 UTC 11506601 Mr Chris Wall [Signature #548] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11505920?utm_medium=rss It is impossible to question what sort of management is proposing to stop teaching free thinking in their University.

]]> Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:34:50 UTC 11505920 Ms Elena Walsh [Signature #547] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11504502?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:38:19 UTC 11504502 Mr Geoffrey Curl [Signature #546] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11501948?utm_medium=rss We cultivate human beings, or we school people into becoming merely sophisticated economic units.

- Your choice.

]]> Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:40:23 UTC 11501948 Dr Margaret MacDougall [Signature #545] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11500081?utm_medium=rss Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:20:10 UTC 11500081 Ms Wai Yenn Ng [Signature #544] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11497619?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:26:27 UTC 11497619 Ms Hannah Clark-Younger [Signature #543] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11497291?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:10:20 UTC 11497291 dr gregory campbell [Signature #542] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11496531?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:52:01 UTC 11496531 Dr Ming Tan [Signature #541] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11496423?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:35:36 UTC 11496423 Prof. Christopher Norris [Signature #540] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11496198?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:41:15 UTC 11496198 Ms Rosi Smith [Signature #539] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11495492?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:45:51 UTC 11495492 Mr Anonymous [Signature #538] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11495405?utm_medium=rss The university was awarded #1 for value added by the guardian, how can it now be cutting staff and modules? where is the sense in that?

]]> Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:25:16 UTC 11495405 Mr Tom Winfield [Signature #537] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11495304?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:51:09 UTC 11495304 Dr Clare Saunders [Signature #536] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11494928?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:46:52 UTC 11494928 Anthony Boese [Signature #535] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11493674?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:52:09 UTC 11493674 Dr Luna Dolezal [Signature #534] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11492884?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:47:02 UTC 11492884 Mrs Sandra Southerington [Signature #533] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11492224?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:50:28 UTC 11492224 Ioana Timpa [Signature #532] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11491938?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:57:03 UTC 11491938 Dr. Raymond Kelly [Signature #531] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11491248?utm_medium=rss Socrates was executed for teaching young people to think critically, traditionalists said he was corrupting the youth of Athens.

We all need to be able to think critically and that is the value of philosophy.

]]> Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:03:13 UTC 11491248 Professor Alan Weir [Signature #530] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/11490923?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:57:06 UTC 11490923