6 April 2017

To the members of the Senate of the University of Zagreb.

We, the undersigned, have learned with great concern that the Senate of the University of Zagreb
decided to discontinue enrollment in the program offered by the Department of Philosophy in the
Centre of Croatian Studies, which is likely to lead to the eventual closing down of the Department.
The Department of Philosophy is an internationally known center of analytic philosophy, an
outstanding representative of Croatian academia and culture in the region and the wider world.
Closing down the Department would be a great loss both for Croatia and for the international
academic community. Therefore we strongly urge you to reconsider your decision. We sincerely
hope that all organizational problems with the Department of Philosophy and the Centre for
Croatian Studies be solved in an impartial, reasoned and legal manner for the long term benefit of
the University of Zagreb.

1. Gabor Betegh, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge

2. Daniel Dennett, Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University
3. Richard Moran, Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
4. Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
5. Tim Crane, Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge; Member of the
Academia Europaea
6. Martin Kusch, Professor of Philosophy of Science and Epistemology, University of Vienna;
Member of the Academia Europaea; Fellow of the Finnish Academy
7. Dan Sperber, Professor, Departments of Philosophy and of Cognitive Science, Central
European University; Member of the Academia Europaea, British Academy,
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Science
8. Pascal Engel, Directeur d'tudes, Ecole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris;
Member of the Academia Europaea
9. Russ Shafer-Landau, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Parr Center for Ethics,
University of North Carolina
10. David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy, New York University
11. Istvan Bodnar, Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the Eotvos
Lorand University
12. Sandy Goldberg, Professor and Chairperson, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern
University
13. Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Professor in Theoretical Philosophy and Rosalind Franklin Fellow,
University of Groningen
14. Katerina Ierodiakonou, Professor of Philosophy, University of Geneva; Department of the
History and Philosophy of Science, National Kapodistrian University of
Athens
15. Ernest Sosa, Professor, Rutgers University; Member American Academy of Arts and
Sciences
16. Alex Byrne, Professor, Head of Philosophy Section, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17. Klaus Corcilius, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of California Berkeley
18. Katalin Farkas, Professor of Philosophy, Central European University; Member of the
Academia Europaea
19. Michael Smith, McCosh Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University.
20. Simon Kirchin, Dean of Faculty of Humanities, University of Kent
21. Petr Kotko, Professor of Philosophy, Head of the Department of Analytic Philosophy,
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Charles
University in Prague
22. Thomas Pink Professor of Philosophy, Kings College London
23. David Rosenthal, Professor of Philosophy, Graduate Center, City University of New York
24. Jennifer Saul, Professor of Philosophy, University of Sheffield
25. Alessandra Tanesini, Professor of Philosophy, Cardiff University; FHEA FLSW
26. David Papineau, King's College London and City University of New York Graduate Center
27. Simon Evnine, Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami
28. Professor Hanoch Ben-Yami, Head of Department of Philosophy, Central European
University
29. Huw Price, Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
30. Laszlo E. Szabo, Professor of Philosophy, Eotvos Lorand University Budapest
31. Berislav Marui, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Brandeis University
32. Dr Patrick Greenough, Director of the St Andrews/Stirling Graduate Programme in
Philosophy, University of St Andrews.
33. David Weberman, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Central European University
34. Dr Stephen McLeod, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Liverpool, UK
35. Gillian Russell, Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
36. David Pitt, Professor of Philosophy, Director of Graduate Studies, California State
University Los Angeles
37. Tadeusz Ciecierski, Assistant Professor, Insitute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw
38. Dr Shaul Tor, Lecturer in Philosophy, King's College London
39. Cory Wright, Associate Professor of Philosophy, California State University Long Beach
40. Professor Alex Miller, Department of Philosophy, University of Otago, New Zealand
41. Ruben Apressyan, Professor of Philosophy, Head, Department of Ethics, Institute of
Philosophy (Moscow, Russia); Honorary Doctor, Uppsala University
42. Sharon Weisser, Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy, The Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv
University
43. Iddo Landau, Professor of Philosophy, Haifa University
44. Dr. Peter Agocs, Lecturer, University College London
45. Aidan McGlynn, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
46. Dr. Guy Longworth, Reader, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick
47. Daniel Cohnitz, Professor, Utrecht University, Chair of Theoretical Philosophy; Member of
the steering committee of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy
48. Emma Borg, Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading
49. Joshua Schechter, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Brown University
50. Dr. Michaelis Michael, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, The University of New South Wales.
51. Rafael De Clercq, Associate Professor, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
52. Andrs Moles, Assistant Professor, Central European University
53. Dr Phillip Horky, Lecturer in Classics, Durham University
54. Dr Renaud Gagn, University Reader in Classics, University of Cambridge
55. Marko Jurjako, Assistant Professor, University of Rijeka
56. Guy Longworth, Reader in Philosophy, University of Warwick
57. Brian Fabo, Research Fellow, Central European University
58. Alberto Voltolini, Professor of Philosophy, University of Turin
59. Jason W. Carter, Michael Cohen Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy, Exeter College,
University of Oxford
60. Philip Gerrans, Professor of Philosophy, University of Adelaide
61. Olav Gjelsvik, Professor of Philosophy, Director of CSMN, University of Oslo,
62. Jnos Laki, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the
Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
63. Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy, Ludwig Maximillians University in Munich
64. Emma Bullock, Assistant Professor, Central European University
65. Paolo Badalotti, Professor of Philosophy, University of Trieste
66. Constantine Sandis, Professor of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire
67. Hong Yu Wong, Professor of Philosophy, University of Tbingen
68. Miljana Milojevic, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
69. Dr. Daniel Vazquez, Research Fellow, Universidade de So Paulo
70. Mikkel Gerken, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark
71. Howard Robinson, Professor of Philosophy, Central European University; Senior Fellow,
Rutgers Center for Philosophy of Religion; Recurrent Visiting Scholar,
Fordham University.
72. Lilia Gurova, Associate Professor of Philosophy, New Bulgarian University
73. Alexandru Volacu, National University of Political Science and Public Administration in
Bucharest
74. Robert A. Wilson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Alberta, Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada
75. Neil Levy, Professor of Philosophy, Deputy Director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics,
University of Oxford
76. Dimitar Elchinov, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University St. Kliment Ohridski
77. Gunnar Bjrnsson, Professor of Practical Philosophy, Stockholm University
78. Malina Gardeva, MD, Assistant Director, Multiprofile Hospital, Yambol, Bulgaria
79. Sren Hggqvist, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Stockholm University
80. Martin Lenz, Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair, University of Groningen
81. Carlo Natali, Ordinario di Storia della filosofia Antica, Universit "Ca' Foscari" Venezia
82. Pekka Vyrynen, Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Leeds
83. Dr Thomas Raleigh, Lecturer & Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Vienna and King's
College London
84. Mauro Zamboni, Professor in Philosophy of Law, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University
85. Duko Prelevi, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
86. Maria Ludassy, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Eotvos Lorand University
87. Kamen Lozev, Associate Professor, South-West University 'Neofit Rilski', Blagoevgrad
88. Andrej Jandric, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
89. R.J.Hankinson, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas Austin
90. Kathrin Gler-Pagin, Professor of Philosophy, Stockholm University; Member of the
Academia Europaea
91. Dirk Baltzly, Professor and Head of Philosophy, University of Tasmania; Fellow of the
Australian Academy of Humanities
92. Gbor Forrai, Professor of Philosophy, Budapest University of Technology
93. Ulrike Heuer, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Leeds
94. Simon Hewitt, Research Fellow inPhilosophy, University of Leeds
95. Joel Smith, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Manchester
96. Matthew Benton, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Seattle Pacific University
97. Manya Sundstrm, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Ume Univeristy
98. Marcin Mikowski, Associate Professor, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology; Member of
the Polish Academy of Sciences
99. Bojan Borstner, Professor of Philosophy, Head of the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of
Arts, University of Maribor
100. Dr. Heinrich C. Kuhn, Academic Executive director, Seminar fr Geistesgeschichte und
Philosophie der Renaissance, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
101. Robert Nola, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy School of Humanities The University of
Auckland
102. Jan Sprenger, Professor of Philosophy of Science, Tilburg University
103. Marin Zouhar, Professor of Philosophy, Head of the Department of Analytic Philosophy,
Slovak Academy of Sciences
104. Peter Neuman, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and History of Science,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
105. Marina Bakalova, Associate Professor, ISSK, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Chair of
Bulgarian Society for Analytic Philosophy
106. Dr. Christian Pfeiffer, Lecturer in Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich
107. Conor McHugh, Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Southampton
108. Pr Sundstrm, Professor of Philosophy, Ume University
109. Jerry Samet, Professor and Chair of Department, Brandeis University
110. Marion Smiley, J.P. Morgan Chase Professor of Ethics, Brandeis University
111. Matthew Boyle, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago
112. John Schwenkler, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University
113. Eli Hirsch, Professor of Philosophy, Brandeis University
114. Aaron Garrett, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Boston University
115. Pamela Hieronymi, Professor of Philosophy, University of California Los Angeles
116. Tadeusz Zawidzki, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, George
Washington University
117. Eugene Chislenko, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Temple University
118. Robert Briscoe, Professor of Philosophy, Ohio University
119. Juan Carlos Guerrero-Hernandez, Professor of Philosophy, Los Andes University
120. Dr. Jos Andrs Forero-Mora, Department of Philosophy, Corporacin Universitaria Minuto
de Dios, Bogot
121. Michael G. Titelbaum, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
122. David Hunter, Professor of Philosophy, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada; Managing
Editor of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy
123. Michael Schmitz, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Vienna
124. Stephen Crowley, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Boise State University
125. Sigrn Svavarsdttir, Associate Professor, Tufts University
126. Manuel Vargas, Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of San Francisco
127. Samuel Z. Moseley, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, University of Houston
128. Gualtiero Piccinini, Professor of Philosophy, Associate Director of the Center for
Neurodynamics, University of Missouri St. Louis
129. Dr Cain Todd, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University, UK
130. Derek Ball, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of St Andrews
131. K. Vavova, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College
132. Ray Jackendoff, Seth Merrin Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director, Center for Cognitive
Studies, Tufts University; Recipient of Jean Nicod Prize in Cognitive
Philosophy; Past President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology
133. Luca Malatesti, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Rijeka
134. Alexander Guerrero, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University New Brunswick
135. Elliott Sober, Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin Madison
136. G. Lee Bowie, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College; Emeritus Dean
of the College; Emeritus Head of Department
137. Juan Pablo Bermdez, Professor of Philosophy, Universidad Externado de Colombia
138. Paul Kelleher, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Madison
139. Jesse Steinberg, Faculty Associate, University of Wisconsin Madison
140. Peter Kail, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford
141. Anat Schechtman, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin Madison
142. Paula Gottlieb, Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin Madison
143. Melissa Fusco, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
144. Michael Weisberg, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
145. Dr. Jonathan Way, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Southampton
146. David Christensen, Professor of Philosophy, Brown University
147. Eric Thomson, Senior Research Scientist in Neurobiology, Duke University
148. Fabrizio Cariani, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University
149. Farid Masrour, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin Madison
150. Rico Vitz, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Azusa Pacific University
151. Josef Mitterer, Professor of Philosophy, University of Klagenfurt
152. Dr Luca Barlassina, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sheffield
153. Alejandro Prez Carballo, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
154. Luke Roelofs, Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University
155. Benjamin Lennertz, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Western Kentucky University
156. Ben Sherman, Lecturer in Philosophy, Brandeis University
157. Michael Nair-Collins, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University
158. Emese Fazakas, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj
159. Gizela Horvath, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Partium Christian University
160. Sarah Paul, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin Madison
161. Nathan King, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Whitworth University
162. Matthew Silverstein, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, New York University in Abu Dhabi
163. Dr Antti Kauppinen, Academy of Finland Research Fellow, University of Tampere
164. Tim Maudlin, Professor of Philosophy, New York University
165. Justin Garson, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College of the City University of
New York
166. Christof Rapp, Professor of Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Director of
the Center for Advanced Studies, Co-Director of Munich School of Ancient
Philosophy
167. Ian Phillips, Professor of Philosophy, St. Anne's College, University of Oxford
168. Heather Logue, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Leeds
169. Justin D'Arms, Professor and Chair of Department of Philosophy, Ohio State University
170. Piers Turner, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Ohio State University
171. Stewart Shapiro, O'Donnell Professor of Philosophy, Ohio State University
172. Natalia Jakubecki, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Buenos Aires
173. Maura Tumulty, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Colgate University
174. Donald C. Hubin, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Director of the Ohio State University
Center for Ethics and Human Values; Ohio State University
175. Dr Elizabeth Irvine, Lecturer in Philosophy, Cardiff University
176. Rosen Lutskanov, Associate Professor, Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
177. Vid Simoniti, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy and History of Art, University of
Cambridge
178. Igor D. Dzhokhadze, Head of the Department of Contemporary Western Philosophy,
Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences
179. Andrew Edgar, Professor and Head of Philosophy, Cardiff University
180. Victoria Lysenko, Head of the Department of Oriental Philosophies, Institute of Philosophy,
Russian Academy of Sciences
181. Alexander Chumakov, Professor, Chair of Philosophy, Department of Finance, University
State University; Leading Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of
the Russian Academy of Sciences
182. Steph Rennick, Lecturer in Philosophy, Cardiff University
183. Irina Koznova, Leading Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Science
184. Eden Lin, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Ohio State University
185. Paolo Santorio, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Leeds
186. Dr. Stanislav Rykov, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of
Sciences
187. Santiago Arango-Muoz, Professor of Philosophy, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
188. Neil Sinhababu, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore
189. Pieter Sjoerd Hasper, Associate Professor Philosophy, Indiana University at Bloomington
190. Gerald Vision, Professor of Philosophy, Temple University
191. Dr. Georgia Tsouni, Lecturer, Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern
192. Peter Baumann, Professor of Philosophy, Swarthmore College
193. Georges Rey, Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland
194. Janice Dowell, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Syracuse University
195. Gabriel Oak Rabin, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, New York University and New York
University Abu Dhabi
196. Jennifer Whiting, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
197. Sara Magrin, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of California Berkeley
198. Iakovos Vasiliou, Professor of Philosophy, Executive Officer of the Ph.D./M.A. Program in
Philosophy, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
199. Jessica Gelber, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
200. Alicia Finch, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Northern Illinois University
201. Dr. Yuri Cath, Lecturer in Philosophy, La Trobe University
202. Dr. Teresa Marques, Researcher with the LOGOS Group at the Philosophy Department of
the University of Barcelona
203. Dr.Vladimir L. Vasyukov, Head of the Chair of History and Philosophy of Science, Institute
of Philosophy (Moscow), Russian Academy of Sciences; corresponding
member of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy
204. Dr. Elena Shulga, Leading Specialist, Institute of Philosophy (Moscow), Russian Academy
of Sciences; corresponding member the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy
205. Rocco J. Gennaro, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, University of Southern Indiana
206. Sorin Costreie, Professor of Philosophy, Vice-rector, University of Bucharest
207. Dr Jonathan Webber, Reader in Philosophy, Cardiff University
208. Nicholas Shackel, Reader in Philosophy, Cardiff University
209. Elena Popa, Assistant Professor, American University of Central Asia
210. Stephen White, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University
211. Matt Matravers, Professor of Law, University of York
212. David Bronstein, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
213. Brad Rives, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
214. Benjamin McMyler, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University