Sam Levey

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University , 1997

309 Thornton
646-2543
Office Hours: By appointment

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Sam Levey began teaching at Dartmouth in 1997 after receiving his PhD from Syracuse University.  He has broad philosophical interests in both historical and contemporary answers to such questions as: What is it for something to exist independently of the mind? What makes truths of mathematics true? What is the past apart from memory? How can anything exist longer than a moment? He writes esoteric papers on Leibniz's philosophy and teaches a variety of courses in the history of modern philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mathematics.

Courses

• Early Modern Continental Rationalism (Phil 13)
• Topics in Metaphysics (Phil 31)
• Philosophy of Mathematics (Phil 29)
• Logic and Language (Phil 6)

Fall 2009
7 (2A): The Meaning of Life, Happiness, and Death. Plus Movies.

Winter 2010
13 (11) Early Modern Continental Rationalism

Spring 2010
31 (10) Topics in Metaphysics

Selected Publications

• "Leibniz on Mathematics and the Actually Infinite Division of Matter." The Philosophical Review 107:1 (January 1998), 49-96.
• "Matter and Two Concepts of Continuity in Leibniz." Philosophical Studies 94: 1-2 (May 1999), 81-118.
• "The Interval of Motion in Leibniz's Pacidius Philalethi." Nos 37: 3 (September 2003), 371-416.