Michael Levin | |
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Born | 21 May 1943 |
Spouse | Margarita Levin |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy Reliabilism |
Doctoral advisor | Charles Parsons |
Main interests | Epistemology, philosophy of race |
Notable ideas | Heritability of intelligence |
Michael Levin (/ˈlɛvɪn/; born 21 May 1943) is an American philosopher and writer. A professor emeritus of philosophy at City College of New York, he has published on metaphysics, epistemology, race, homosexuality, animal rights, the philosophy of archaeology, the philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, and the philosophy of science.
Levin's central research interests are in epistemology (reliabilism and Gettier problems) and in philosophy of race.