Dr. Jim Levine

Dr. James Levine is a Senior Lecturer and currently Head of the Department of Philosophy. He was an undergraduate at Harvard, did his PhD at the University of California at Berkeley, and has been in the Department since 1991. His current research is focused largely on Frege and Russell—in particular, how their different views regarding the analysis and individuation of propositional contents bears on the different ways they understand logicism—as well as on the early Wittgenstein.

RESEARCH AREAS

History of Analytic Philosophy; Philosophy of Language and Logic; Epistemology

SELECTIVE PUBLICATIONS

"Logic and Sollipsism", forthcoming in Michael Potter 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, pp. 43-64.

"Aboutness and the Argument of ‘On Denoting’" in G. Imaguire and B. Linsky eds. On Denoting: 1905–2005. Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 2005.

"On the 'Gray's Elegy' Argument and its Bearing on Frege's Theory of Sense," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 (2), 2004, pp. 251-95.

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

[Reprinted in M. Beaney and E. Reck eds. Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Volume IV: Frege's Philosophy of Thought and Language. London: Routledge, 2005]

"On Russell's vulnerability to Russell's paradox," History and Philosophy of Logic 22, 2001, pp.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, pp. 415-445.

"From Absolute Idealism to The Principles of Mathematics: Critical Notice of Volumes 2 and 3 of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell," International Journal of Philosophical Studies 6 (1), 1998, pp. 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, Supplementary Volume, 1996, pp. 141-175.

[Abridged version reprinted in M. Beaney and E. Reck eds. Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Volume IV: Frege's Philosophy of Thought and Language. London: Routledge, 2005]

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

"Critical Notice: The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap, by J. Alberto Coffa," International Journal of Philosophical Studies 1 (1), 1993, pp. 111-118.

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