Peter West

About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Northeastern University London. Previously, I was a Teaching Fellow at Durham University and completed my PhD at Trinity College Dublin. 

I work in two areas of philosophy's history: Early Modern Philosophy and Early Analytic Philosophy. 

• My Early Analytic work is British Academy/ Leverhulme funded and focuses on a generation of women at the dawn of analytic philosophy, including Susan Stebbing, Dorothy Emmet, and Margaret Macdonald.

• My Early Modern work covers a range of figures including Margaret Cavendish, Anton Wilhelm Amo, Mary Shepherd, and George Berkeley - and topics including the mind and mental representation, space and time, perception, and environmental ethics.

My work is underlied by a commitment to expanding the canon of philosophy's history, and recovering the work of marginalised figures.

You can contact me on peter.west@nulondon.ac.uk. 

You can follow me on twitter (@PeterWest23) here. 

I also run the website and twitter for the International Berkeley Society. 

The photo above was taken by my friend Eamonn McGrattan, who is a fantastic photographer.