A variation on the popular game, as played by British universities. When one university (e.g. Middlesex) turns a deaf ear to philosophy, removes the chairs and is not able to face the music, another university (e.g. Kingston) steps in and offers as many chairs as possible to the abandoned band of philosophers. The show must go on…
CRMEP set to move from Middlesex to Kingston University
Yesterday brought the happy news that the world renowned Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy has found a new home at Kingston University. As many of you know, this development follows weeks of unrest at Middlesex University following its decision to close down all its Philosophy programmes and to close its stellar Philosophy department.
We are extremely pleased to learn that the CRMEP will be preserved in this way and we wish Professor Eric Alliez, Professor Peter Hallward, Professor Peter Osborne and Dr Stella Sandford of the CRMEP a long and prosperous future at Kingston.
Congratulations to both the philosophers and Kingston University for a game well played. Middlesex University surely won’t be a sore looser, since they did not seem to understand what they had in the first place. To quote Warren Buffett, “Anyone not aware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.”
