Amy Levine

I am a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.  I completed my PhD in  Philosophy and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in 2024.  

I work mostly in ethics, including metaethics and moral psychology, but I also have a strong interest in 19th and 20th century European Philosophy and in psychoanalysis. My book project, Anxious Subjects: On not knowing how to live draws on Kierkeggard, Heidegger and Freud to offer a novel account of our agency as essentially anxious, in the same way that it is essentially rational or self-conscious.  I argue that our efforts  to answer the question how to live involve not only deliberative practical reasoning, but also creative and interpretative forms of practical thinking. 

Email: amylevine [at] fas [dot] harvard [dot] edu