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Joseph Levine (born January 17, 1952) is an American philosopher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who received his PhD from Harvard University in 1981. He works on philosophy of mind and is best known for formulating the explanatory gap argument against a materialist explanation for consciousness. [1]
Professor Levine works primarily in philosophy of mind and psychology, but also works on topics in metaphysics and social/political philosophy. In philosophy of mind his main focus is the problem of consciousness, how to understand the subjective experience of the world in relation to the objective characterization provided by scientific ...
Joseph Levine. BOOKS. Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness, Oxford University Press, 2001. Quality and Content: Essays on Consciousness, Representation, and Modality, Oxford University Press, 2018. SELECTED PAPERS. Materialism and Qualia: The Explanatory Gap, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 54:354-361, 1983.
Joseph Levine is professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1981 and has taught at N.C. State University and the Ohio State University. He works in philosophy of mind, with a focus on the problem of consciousness.
Joseph Levine draws together a series of essays in which he has developed his distinctive approach to philosophy of mind. He defends a materialist view of the mind against various challenges, and offers illuminating studies of consciousness, phenomenal concepts, mental representation, demonstrative thought, and cognitive phenomenology.
I am currently Professor of Philosophy at UMass Amherst. I work primarily in philosophy of mind and the metaphysics of mind, specializing on the problem of consciousness. I have also been active in various political movements, especially the Palestine Solidarity movement.
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Jan 18, 2001 · First, a positive argument for materialism is given, with responses to dualist objections. Second, objections are presented to most materialist attempts to explain consciousness – in particular, higher‐order theories, representationalism, and eliminativism.
