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Senior Research Fellow. Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. neil.levy@philosophy.ox.ac.uk. See citations webpage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hqLeZWcAAAAJ&hl=en. Area of Specialisation: Philosophy of Cognitive Science. Philosophy of Mind. Practical Ethics. Membership Type: Fixed-Term Tutorial & Research Fellows.
Senior Research Fellow Professor Neil Levy has wide-ranging research interests, with a recent focus on the role of expertise in society. He has published widely on many topics, ranging from philosophy of mind to bioethics.
Nov 2, 2022 · The central claim of Levy’s book is a radical and surprising one: bad beliefs are (at least typically) “the product of genuinely and wholly rational processes”—rational in the (demanding) sense that they “respond appropriately to evidence, as evidence” (xii; Levy’s emphases).
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A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as resulting from a range of biases that together ensure that human beings fall short of being genuinely rational animals. This book presents an alternative account. It argues that bad beliefs arise from genuinely rational processes.
Neil Levy. I am a Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney. I work mainly on conceptual and empirical approaches to the self-regulation of behavior. I am the author of 6 books and...
I am professor of philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney and a Senior Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. I work on a broad range of topics, from belief formation to responsibility and applied ethics.
Nominating editor, Philosopher’s Annual. Guest editor (with Michael Mckenna) of Philosophical Explorations, Special Issue On Alfred Mele’s Free Will And Luck (2007). Guest editor of Ethical Theory And Moral Practice, Special Issue On Empirically Informed Ethical Theory.
Mar 31, 2024 · Neil Levy | Practical Ethics. Reducing the Power of Childless Cat Ladies? by Neil Levy. July 29, 2024. JD Vance’s 2021 comments on how the Democrats are run by “childless cat ladies” are obviously – and probably deliberately – offensive, but the broader point of his remarks is one that’s worth considering.
Professor Neil Levy is Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. Before coming to Macquarie, he was Head of Neuroethics at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health.
