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Steven Levine

Department:
Philosophy
Title:
Professor
Location:
Wheatley Hall Floor 05

Area of Expertise

Pragmatism, Philosophy of Mind, German Idealism

Degrees

PhD, The New School For Social Research, 2005

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • Pragmatism, Objectivity, and Experience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, March 2019.
  • “Rorty, Davidson, and Representation” in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Rorty, ed. A. Malachowski, Wiley-Blackwell Press, forthcoming.
  • “The Principles of Psychology: The Phenomenological Reading,” in The Oxford Handbook of William James, ed. A. Klein, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
  • “Rethinking Sellars’ Naturalism,” in Responses to Naturalism: From Idealism and Pragmatism, ed. P. Giladi, Routledge Press, forthcoming.
  • “Sellars and Non-Conceptual Content,” European Journal of Philosophy, 24 (4), Dec. 2016, pp. 855-78.
  • “Hegel, Dewey, and Habits,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 23 (4), April 2015, pp. 632-656.
  • “McDowell, Hegel, and Habits,” Hegel Bulletin, 36 (2), Oct. 2015, pp. 184-201.
  • “Norms and Habits: Brandom on the Sociality of Action,” European Journal of Philosophy, 23 (2), June 2015, pp. 248-272.
  • ‘Truth and Moral Validity: Habermas’ Domesticated Pragmatism’, Constellations, Vol. 18: 2, June 2011.
  • ‘Rehabilitating Objectivity: Rorty, Brandom, and the New Pragmatism’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 40: 4, December 2010.

Additional Information

Courses Taught

  • American Pragmatism
  • Meaning and Being
  • Hegel
  • Intro to Philosophy