James Levine joined the department in 1991. He holds a B.A. from Harvard College, and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. His current research is focused largely on Frege and Russell—in particular, how their different views regarding the analysis and individuation of propositional content bears on the different ways they understand logicism—as well as on the early Wittgenstein.

Selected Publications

"Logic and Sollipsism" in Michael Porter and Peter M. Sullivan (Eds.) The Tractatus and its History.

"Analysis and Abstraction Principles in Russell and Frege" in M. Beaney (Ed.) The Analytic Turn (New York and London: Routledge, 2007).

"Analysis, Abstraction Principles and Slingshot Arguments" Ratio 19 (1), 2006, 43–64.

"On the 'Gray's Elegy' argument and its bearing on Frege's Theory of Sense" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 (2), 2004, 251–295.

"Analysis and Decomposition in Frege and Russell" The Philosophical Quarterly 52 (207), 2002, 195–216.

"On Russell's Vulnerability to Russell's Paradox" Hsitory and Philosophy of Logic 22, 2001, 207–231.

"Logical Form, General Sentences, and Russell's Path to 'On Denoting'" in Richard Gaskin (Ed.) Grammar in Early Twentieth–Century Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2001).

"Acquaintance, Denoting Concepts and Sense" The Philosophical Review 107 (3), 1998, 415–445.

"From Absolute Idealism to the Principles of Mathematics: Critical note on Volumes 2 and 3 of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell" , The International Journal of Philosophical Studies 6 (1), 1998, 87–127.

"The What and the That: Theories of Singular Thought in Bradley, Russell and the early Wittgenstein" in Guy Stock (Ed.) Appearance versus Reality: New Essays on Bradley's Metaphysics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998).

"Logic and Truth in Frege" Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplimentary Volume, 1996, 141–175.

"Putnam, Davidson and the Seventeenth–Century Picture of Mind and World" International Journal of Philosophical Studies 1 (2), 1993, 193–230.