Peter West

Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Northeastern University London

Peter West is an assistant professor in philosophy at Northeastern University London. He is currently working on a British Academy funded project on Women at the Dawn of Analytic Philosophy.

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Thinkers and theories

Philosophy is an art

For Margaret Macdonald, philosophical theories are akin to stories, meant to enlarge certain aspects of human life

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Thinkers and theories

Pause. Reflect. Think

Susan Stebbing’s little Pelican book on philosophy had a big aim: giving everybody tools to think clearly for themselves

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