Samuel Levey

|Professor of Philosophy
Academic Appointments

Philosophy Department Chair

Samuel Levey received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1997. His philosophical interests are wide-ranging, but his studies focus particularly on topics in metaphysics and the philosophy of mathematics. What is truth? What does a mathematical proof prove? What is the past apart from memory? What is it for something to exist independently of the mind? How can something remain one and the same through change? What are the correct logical rules for reasoning about such subjects? He writes primarily on Leibniz's philosophy and teaches a variety of courses in the history of modern philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, logic, epistemology and the philosophy of language.

Contact

Samuel.S.Levey@Dartmouth.EDU
309 Thornton
HB 6035

Education

  • B.A. University of Colorado
  • Ph.D. Syracuse University

Selected Publications

  • “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.

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