Amy Levine

I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.  Next year, I will be a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Before coming to Chicago, I completed a BPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a BA in Philosophy and English at Williams College. 

I work mostly in ethics, including metaethics and moral psychology. I'm interested in the variety of forms that practical reasoning can take. My dissertation, "Anxiety and the Practical Point of View" explores some of the ways in which our engagement with the question of how to live is not just deliberative, but also creative and interpretative.  My research is informed both by the history of philosophy, especially Kant and 19th and 20th century European philosophy, and psychoanalysis. I can teach broadly in these areas, as well as courses in the philosophy of gender and sexuality. 

Email: amylevine [at] uchicago [dot] edu