I NOTE that Professor Adam Tomkins, a constitutional lawyer at the University of Glasgow, claims in your article on the key referendum battleground of Glasgow ("Population melting pot in an area with a long tradition of protest votes", The Herald, September 18), to have heard that the University of Glasgow's entire Philosophy Department would be voting Yes, and that this would be "an act of extreme selfishness by ...

people with no sense of solidarity". This is not true. The Philosophy Department contains both Yes and No voters and I am confident that each of us - whether voting Yes or No - came to their decision not only out of self-concern but on account of careful consideration of what we think is best for all. United in this we stand.

The moral of the story is that one cannot tell what a person's motives are just by looking at their actions, but also that one must first find out what the actions are.

Professor Fiona Macpherson,

Head of Philosophy,

University of Glasgow.