Samuel Levey
Professor
Appointments
Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Arts and Humanities
Dartmouth Professor of Philosophy
Area of Expertise
Leibniz and early modern philosophy,
metaphysics,
philosophy of mathematics and logic,
philosophy of language,
epistemology
Biography
Samuel Levey is a specialist in metaphysics and the philosophy of mathematics in both contemporary and historical settings. He has published widely on Leibniz's philosophical works and teaches a variety of courses in the history of modern philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, logic, epistemology, and the philosophy of language.
Education
B.A. University of Colorado
Ph.D. Syracuse University
Taught Courses
Publications
"Continuous Extension and Indivisibles in Galileo." In S. Shapiro and G. Hellman, eds., The History of Continua: Philosophical and Mathematical Perspectives, New York: Oxford University Press (2021): 82-103.
"The Continuum, the Infinitely Small, and the Law of Continuity in Leibniz." In S. Shapiro and G. Hellman, eds., The History of Continua: Philosophical and Mathematical Perspectives, New York: Oxford University Press (2021): 123-157.
From Leibniz to Kant. Co-editor with Katherine Dunlop. Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy 21 (2018).
"The Paradox of Sufficient Reason." The Philosophical Review 125:3 (July 2016).
"Comparability of Infinities and Infinite Multitude in Galileo and Leibniz." In N. Goethe, P. Beeley and D. Rabouin, eds., G.W. Leibniz: Interrelations between Mathematics and Philosophy, Archimedes Series 41 (Dordrecht: Springer-Verlag: 2015): 157-187.
"On Time and the Dichotomy in Leibniz." Studia Leibnitiana 44 (2012): 33-59.
"Unity, Borrowed Reality and Multitude in Leibniz." The Leibniz Review 22 (2012): 97-134.
"On Two Theories of Substance in Leibniz: Critical Notice of Daniel Garber, Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad." The Philosophical Review 120: 2 (2011), 285-319.
"Dans les corps il n'y a point de figure parfaite: Leibniz on Time, Change and Corporeal Substance." Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 5 (2010), 146-170.
"Archimedes, Infinitesimals and the Law of Continuity: On Leibniz's Fictionalism." In U. Goldenbaum and D. Jesseph, eds., Infinitesimals Differences: Controversies between Leibniz and his Contemporaries (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter: 2008), 107-134.
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