Claus Emmeche was one of the organizers of a petition directed at Helge Sander's education reforms, which the petition claimed undermined academic freedom by granting a broad majority of the management of universities to people from outside the academic community. As of August, 2008, 35% of Danish academics had signed the petition.[3] By November, this had risen to about 50%.[4]
Notable works
Claus Emmeche has authored or co-authored at least 31 works in science and philosophy in English. Some of his most notable English works include:
The Garden in the Machine: The Emerging Science of Artificial Life, Princeton University Press, (ISBN0691029032)
Downward Causation: Minds, Bodies and Matter by Peter Bogh Andersen, Claus Emmeche, Niels Ole Finnemann, and Peder Voetmann Christiansen. Princeton University Press, (ISBN0691029032) (1996)
Towards a Semiotic Biology: Life is the Action of Signs, ed. by Claus Emmeche, and Kalevi Kull. London: Imperial College Press. (2011) See
In Danish, Emmeche has authored or co-authored at least 5 books, 25 articles, and over 47 other works.