Philip Marcus Levy

Philip Marcus Levy (1934 – 2011) was a British psychologist who specialised in the field of mathematical psychology.

Philip Marcus Levy
Born
Philip Marcus Levy

1934
Redcar
Died2011
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Leeds
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology, mathematical psychology

Life

Phil Levy was born in 1934 in Redcar, Teeside but grew up in Leeds where he was a pupil at Leeds Grammar School. He took his first degree at the University of Leeds followed by a PhD on discriminant analysis at the University of Birmingham (1958). He stayed at Birmingham, initially as a research fellow and then as lecturer and senior lecturer. He was appointed the first chair in psychology at the University of Lancaster in 1972.[1][2]

He was active in the British Psychological Society and edited the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology. He was elected President of the Society in 1978. In his presidential address he called on psychologists to reflect on the assumptions underlying the science. As he said: I feel that we have a simplified view of science, perhaps due - for understandable sociohistorical reasons - for our anxious desire to receive the accolade of being 'scientific' [...] I believe that science is much more a matter of social exchange than many of us are prepared to admit.[3]

Work

His expertise was in mathematical and statistical psychology. He was an expert in the construction of tests in education and training.[4]

Awards
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References
  1. Morris, P. (2011). "Obituary - Philip Marcus Levy". The Psychologist. 24 (327).
  2. Goldstein, Harvey. "Professor Phil Levy". The Independent. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  3. Levy, Philip (1981). "On the relation between method and substance in psychology". Bulletin of the British Psychological Society. 34: 265–270.
  4. "Obituary - Philip Levy". The Times. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
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