Peter West
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3602094 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Peter West |
| PRENOMES | Peter |
| SOBRENOME | West |
| ASSINATURA | WEST P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3862-142X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Living With Each Other
In 1966, Dorothy Emmet published Rules, Roles and Relations, in which she argues that moral philosophy could stand to learn a lot by drawing on sociological research. In this paper. I will argue that Rules, Roles and Relations is deserving of much wider scholarly attention, especially in light of an explosion of scholarship focusing on contemporaries of Emmet such as Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Iris Murdoch (the ‘Wartime …
The Depth of Margaret Cavendish's Ecology
We examine Margaret Cavendish’s ecological views and argue that, in the Appendix to her final published work, Grounds of Natural Philosophy (1668), Cavendish is defending a normative account of the way that humans ought to interact with their environment. On this basis, we argue that Cavendish is committed to a form of what, for the purposes of this paper, we call ‘deep ecology,’ where that is understood as the view that humans ought to treat the…
The philosopher versus the physicist
A number of recent papers or monographs have examined Susan Stebbing's criticisms of Arthur Eddington's scientific-philosophical writing. These papers focus on Stebbing's critique of Eddington's attempt to infer philosophical conclusions from developments in modern physics, his view that there is a discrepancy between the world of science and the world of common sense (best encapsulated by his famous ‘two tables’ metaphor), and his use of ‘inexac…
The Philosophical Writings of Scottish Women
Man-Devil
Teaching Margaret Cavendish’s Philosophy
In my contribution to this Concise Collection on Margaret Cavendish, I focus on teaching Cavendish’s work in the context of philosophy (and, more specifically, Early Modern Philosophy). I have three aims. First, to explain why teaching women from philosophy’s history is crucially important to the discipline. Second, to outline my own reflections on teaching Cavendish’s philosophy. Third, to defend a specific claim about the benefits of teaching C…
A Review of Kristin M. Girten's Sensitive Witnesses
A review of Sensitive Witnesses by Kristin M. Girten by Peter West
Seeing life steadily
The aim of this paper is to outline Dorothy Emmet's (1904–2000) account of perception in The Nature of Metaphysical Thinking (published in 1945). Emmet's account of perception is part of a wider attempt to rehabilitate metaphysics in the face of logical positivism and verificationism (of the kind espoused most famously by A. J. Ayer). It is thus part of an attempt to stem the tide of anti-metaphysical thought that had become widespread in British…
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is
One of the most fascinating entries in Samuel Pepys diaries, from the 13th May 1665, recounts his experience of having been gifted a new pocket watch: To the ‘Change after office, and received my watch from the watchmaker, and a very fine [one] it is, given me by Briggs, the Scrivener... But, Lord! to see how much of my old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still that I cannot forbear carrying my watch in my hand in the coach all this afterno…
What We Owe the Future
In Utilitarianism, first published in 1861, John Stuart Mill explains that ‘utilitarianism requires [one] to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator’. The impartiality requirement has been a central tenet of most iterations of utilitarianism since then and is one of the more contentious issues when it comes to evaluating its plausibility as an ethical theory. Can we, really, take an impartial approach to ethical decis…
Metaphysical Animals
Journal Article Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life Get access Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life. By Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman. (London: Chatto & Windus, 2022. Pp. xv + 398. Price £25.00.) Peter West Peter West Northeastern University London, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 73, Issue 3, J…
The Women Are Up to Something
A central notion in Benjamin Lipscomb's narrative of the rise of the ‘Wartime Quartet’—Anscombe, Foot, Midgley, and Murdoch—is that of philosophical pictures (e.g. p. 129, 139). A picture, in this context, is a way of not only thinking about but also operating within the world. Lipscomb likens the idea of a philosophical picture to a scientific paradigm, as described by Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (p. 13).…
Teaching and Learning Guide for
Margaret Cavendish on conceivability, possibility, and the case of colours
Throughout her philosophical writing, Margaret Cavendish is clear in stating that colours are real; they are not mere mind-dependent qualities that exist only in the mind of perceivers. This puts her at odds with other seventeenth-century thinkers such as Galileo and Descartes who endorsed what would come to be known as the ‘primary-secondary quality distinction’. Cavendish’s argument for this view is premised on two claims. First, that colourles…
The philosopher versus the physicist
In this paper, I provide the first in-depth discussion of Susan Stebbing’s views concerning our experience of the passage of time – a key issue for many metaphysicians writing in the first half of the twentieth century. I focus on Stebbing’s claims about the passage of time in Philosophy and the Physicists and her disagreement with Arthur Eddington over how best to account for that experience. I show that Stebbing’s concern is that any attempt to…
L. Susan Stebbing Philosophy and the Physicists (1937)
In this re-appraisal of Philosophy and the Physicists, I want to challenge C. D. Broad’s account of what Stebbing accomplishes (in his own review of the text from 1938) and show that, alongside a thorough (and sometimes scathing) critique of Eddington’s philosophical-scientific writing, the text in fact offers valuable insights into both Stebbing’s own philosophy of science and her wider views on philosophical analysis. More specifically, I will …
Mind-Body Commerce
This paper contributes to a growing body of literature focusing on Anton Wilhelm Amo's account of the mind-body relation. The first aim of this paper is to provide an overview of that literature, bringing together several interpretations of Amo's account of the mind-body relation and providing a comprehensive overview of where the debate stands so far. Doing so reveals that commentary is split between those who take Amo to adopt a Leibnizian acco…
Why Can An Idea Be Like Nothing But Another Idea? A Conceptual Interpretation of Berkeley's Likeness Principle
Berkeley's likeness principle is the claim that ‘an idea can be like nothing but an idea’. The likeness principle is intended to undermine representationalism: the view (that Berkeley attributes to thinkers like Descartes and Locke) that all human knowledge is mediated by ideas in the mind that represent material objects. Yet, Berkeley appears to leave the likeness principle unargued for. This has led to several attempts to explain why Berkeley a…
The Irish Context of Berkeley's ‘Resemblance Thesis’
In this paper, we focus on Berkeley's reasons for accepting the ‘resemblance thesis’ which entails that for one thing to represent another those two things must resemble one another. The resemblance thesis is a crucial premise in Berkeley's argument from the ‘likeness principle’ in §8 of the Principles . Yet, like the ‘likeness principle’, the resemblance thesis remains unargued for and is never explicitly defended. This has led several commentat…
Reid and Berkeley on Scepticism, Representationalism, and Ideas
Both Reid and Berkeley reject ‘representationalism’, an epistemological position whereby we (mediately) perceive things in the world indirectly via ideas in our mind, on the grounds of anti-scepticism and common sense. My aim in this paper is to draw out the similarities between Reid and Berkeley's ‘anti-representationalist’ arguments, whilst also identifying the root of their disagreements on certain fundamental metaphysical issues. Reid famousl…
A food desert in Detroit
Objective Currently 67 % of the US population is overweight or obese and obesity is associated with several chronic medical conditions. Geographic areas where individuals lack access to healthy foods have been termed ‘food deserts’. The study aim was to examine if area of residence within Metro Detroit was associated with dietary intake, food and shopping behaviours, and BMI. Design Cross-sectional study. Settings Participants were recruited in t…
Introduction to Strings and Branes
The Pilgrim and the Bee
Altering Experienced Utility
This article examines the impact of writing stories on the evaluation of consumption objects. Generating a story creates greater liking for a painting than generating a dialogue about it. The positive impact of stories does not derive from generating more positive thoughts. Instead, stories generate fewer affective thoughts than do dialogues. The importance of generated stories derives from deeper elaboration, providing enhanced recollection of t…
Recommendation or Evaluation? Task Sensitivity in Information Source Selection
Ironically, when consumers turn to an information source to assist in decision making, they are faced with the added responsibility of having to make a decision about the information source itself. A normative model is presented that shows that consumer assessment of an information source should include both the task for which an information source is sought and the appropriate probability of success for the task. A key distinction between tasks …
Consumption Vocabulary and Preference Formation
Consumers' understanding of their own preferences can be aided by a “consumption vocabulary”—a taxonomy or framework that facilitates identifying the relation between a product's features and one's evaluation of the product. In the absence of such a vocabulary, consumers' understanding of their own preferences will require more extensive experience and may never fully develop. The effect of such a vocabulary is tested in two experiments in which …
Integrating Multiple Opinions
Four studies examine the process by which consumers integrate critic opinions and attribute information into their product evaluations and how critic consensus affects this process. A reference-dependent model is proposed such that consumer response to consensus depends on whether the average critic rating for an alternative is above or below an aspiration level. Consensus is shown to be preferred for alternatives above an aspiration level, where…
Recommendation or Evaluation? Task Sensitivity in Information Source Selection
Ironically, when consumers turn to an information source to assist in decision making, they are faced with the added responsibility of having to make a decision about the information source itself. A normative model is presented that shows that consumer assessment of an information source should include both the task for which an information source is sought and the appropriate probability of success for the task. A key distinction between tasks …
Altering Experienced Utility
This article examines the impact of writing stories on the evaluation of consumption objects. Generating a story creates greater liking for a painting than generating a dialogue about it. The positive impact of stories does not derive from generating more positive thoughts. Instead, stories generate fewer affective thoughts than do dialogues. The importance of generated stories derives from deeper elaboration, providing enhanced recollection of t…
Social Service Budgets and Social Policy. British and American Experience
Journal Article Social Service Budgets and Social Policy. British and American experience Get access Social Service Budgets and Social Policy. British and American experience. By H. GLENNERSTER. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975. Pp. 272. £6.50.) Peter West Peter West University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 86, Issue 344, 1 December 1976, Pages 932–933, https://d…
Gender Politics and the ‘Invention of Tradition’
What Accounts for the Higher Costs of Teaching Hospitals
Domesticating History
Editorial note: Michael Kammen served as president of the Organization of American Historians from 1995 to 1996
Equity in Health Service Provision
Social Service Budgets and Social Policy. British and American Experience
Journal Article Social Service Budgets and Social Policy. British and American experience Get access Social Service Budgets and Social Policy. British and American experience. By H. GLENNERSTER. (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1975. Pp. 272. £6.50.) Peter West Peter West University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 86, Issue 344, 1 December 1976, Pages 932–933, https://d…
The Economics of Public Lending Right
What Accounts for the Higher Costs of Teaching Hospitals
The Economics of Health
The Costs of Higher Education
Australian studies report
History and Australian studies
The Implementation of a Youth Unemployment Program
This article reports on the implementation of youth policy. It examines the literature on policy implementation and finds the literature pessimistic, especially in regard to federal programs locally delivered. It then reports on the Participation and Equity Program as designed by the Australian federal government and as implemented in TAFE Colleges in Western Sydney. The article ends by suggesting a model by which implementation may be judged
Le service national de la santé en Grande-Bretagne
Regional Health Authorities in the English ; National Health Service. The 14 Regional Health Authorities in England control the finance and service provision of the 192 subordinate districts. They are responsible through their appointed authority members for the implementation of government policies and the development of local strategies for the delivery of health care. They receive a budget from the government Department of Health and Social Se…
Soviet media in the age of glasnost
This paper reports a content analysis of Pravda, the chief organ of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, and Vremya, the main evening news program of Soviet television, in early 1987. The analysis included a range of descriptive variables such as geographic location, main topic, source, etc., as well as variables appropriate to the concept of glasnost or openness and coverage of the United States. The quantitative analysis and sup…
Economics, Medicine and Health Care
Soviet media in the age of glasnost
Gender Politics and the ‘Invention of Tradition’
Two Decades of Experience in the University of Washington Family Medicine Residency Network
This study describes how graduates of the University of Washington Family Medicine Residency Network who practice in rural locations differ from their urban counterparts in demographic characteristics, practice organization, practice content and scope of services, and satisfaction. Five hundred and three civilian medical graduates who completed their residencies between 1973 and 1990 responded to a 27‐item questionnaire sent in 1992 (84% response…
Consumption Vocabulary and Preference Formation
Consumers' understanding of their own preferences can be aided by a “consumption vocabulary”—a taxonomy or framework that facilitates identifying the relation between a product's features and one's evaluation of the product. In the absence of such a vocabulary, consumers' understanding of their own preferences will require more extensive experience and may never fully develop. The effect of such a vocabulary is tested in two experiments in which …
Rural hospitals' experience with the National Practitioner Data Bank
OBJECTIVES: This study examined hospital administrators' experiences with the National Practitioner Data Bank. METHODS: One hundred forty-nine rural hospital administrators completed questionnaires assessing their perceptions of the data bank. RESULTS: Nearly 90% of respondents rated the data bank as an important source of information for credentialing. Three percent indicated it had directly affected privileging decisions; 43% and 34%, respectiv…
Integrating Multiple Opinions
Four studies examine the process by which consumers integrate critic opinions and attribute information into their product evaluations and how critic consensus affects this process. A reference-dependent model is proposed such that consumer response to consensus depends on whether the average critic rating for an alternative is above or below an aspiration level. Consensus is shown to be preferred for alternatives above an aspiration level, where…
To the Reader Sitting in Darkness
Domesticating History
Editorial note: Michael Kammen served as president of the Organization of American Historians from 1995 to 1996
Recommendation or Evaluation? Task Sensitivity in Information Source Selection
Ironically, when consumers turn to an information source to assist in decision making, they are faced with the added responsibility of having to make a decision about the information source itself. A normative model is presented that shows that consumer assessment of an information source should include both the task for which an information source is sought and the appropriate probability of success for the task. A key distinction between tasks …
Altering Experienced Utility
This article examines the impact of writing stories on the evaluation of consumption objects. Generating a story creates greater liking for a painting than generating a dialogue about it. The positive impact of stories does not derive from generating more positive thoughts. Instead, stories generate fewer affective thoughts than do dialogues. The importance of generated stories derives from deeper elaboration, providing enhanced recollection of t…
The Pilgrim and the Bee
Introduction to Strings and Branes
A food desert in Detroit
Objective Currently 67 % of the US population is overweight or obese and obesity is associated with several chronic medical conditions. Geographic areas where individuals lack access to healthy foods have been termed ‘food deserts’. The study aim was to examine if area of residence within Metro Detroit was associated with dietary intake, food and shopping behaviours, and BMI. Design Cross-sectional study. Settings Participants were recruited in t…
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