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Dr. James Levine
Associate Professor, Philosophy

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Limits, Limitations, and the Status of Metaphysics: Russell and Kant vs Wittgenstein and Hegel in, editor(s)James Conant and Jonas Held , The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Analytic Philosophy, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, [James Levine] Book Chapter, 2025

James Levine, Idealism and Quantification, First Idealism Summit, Chapel Hill, North Caroline, April 2024, 2024 Conference Paper, 2024

James Levine, Pragmatism vs Naturalism in Quine's Philosophical Development, Tenth Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Analytical Philosophy, Shanxi University, China (presentation by Zoom), July 2022, 2022 Conference Paper, 2022

James Levine, The Analysis of Mind and Russell's Rebellion against Moore, The Analysis of Mind Centenary: History and Future of Russellian Monism, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, June 2022, 2022 Conference Paper, 2022

"Russell and Idealism" in, editor(s)Russell Wahl , The Bloomsbury Companion to Bertrand Russell, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, pp17 - 58, [James Levine] Book Chapter, 2019

"Russell and Wittgenstein on Occam's Razor" in, editor(s)Landon D. C. Elkind & Gregory Landini , The Philosophy of Logical Atomism-A Centenary Reappraisal, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp305 - 334, [James Levine] Book Chapter, 2018

"Russell, Pragmatism, and the Priority of Use over Meaning" in, editor(s)Maria Baghramian and Sarin Marchetti , Pragmatism and the European Traditions, New York and London, Routledge, 2018, pp110 - 154, [James Levine] Book Chapter, 2018

James Levine, "Analysis, Mathematics, and Logic in Russell's Early Philosophy", Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, 36, (2), 2016, p163 - 190 Journal Article, 2016 URL

James Levine, "Prior, Berkeley, and the Barcan Formula", Synthese, 193, (11), 2016, p3551 - 3565 Journal Article, 2016

"The Place of Vagueness in Russell's Philosophical Development" in, editor(s)Sorin Costreie , Early Analytic Philosophy-New Perspectives on the Tradition, Cham, Switzerland, Springer, 2016, pp161 - 212, [James Levine] Book Chapter, 2016

James Levine, "Prior, Berkeley, and the Barcan Formula", Arthur Prior Centenary Conference, Balliol College, Oxford, 20-22 August, 2014 Conference Paper, 2014

James Levine, "Russell, Particularized Relations, and Bradley's Dilemma", dialectica, Vol. 68, (No. 2), 2014, p231 - 261 Journal Article, 2014

"Logic and Solipsism" in, editor(s)Peter Sullivan Michael Potter , Wittgenstein's Tractatus: History & Interpretation, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp170 - 238, [James Levine] Book Chapter, 2013

"Principia Mathematica, the Multiple-Relation Theory of Judgment and Molecular Facts" in, editor(s)Nicholas Griffin and Bernard Linsky , The Palgrave Centenary Companion to Principia Mathematics, Basingstoke, England, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp247 - 304, [James Levine] Book Chapter, 2013

James Levine, "Critical Notice of 'The Russell/Bradley Dispute and its Significance for Twentieth-Century Philosophy', by Stewart Candlish", Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2009 Journal Article, 2009 URL

James Levine, "From Moore to Peano to Watson: The Mathematical Roots of Russell's Naturalism and Behaviorism", The Baltic International Yearbook of of Cognition, Logic and Communication", 4, 2009, p1 - 126 Journal Article, 2009 URL

"Analysis and Abstraction Principles in Russell and Frege" in, editor(s)Michael Beaney , The Analytic Turn, New York and London, Routledge, 2007, pp51 - 74, [James Levine] Book Chapter, 2007

James Levine, "Analysis, Abstraction Principles, and Slingshot Arguments", Ratio, XIX, (1), 2006, p43-63 Journal Article, 2006

"Logic and Truth in Frege" in, editor(s)Michael Beaney, Erich Reck , Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, Volume II: Frege's Philosophy of Logic, London and New York, Routledge, 2005, pp248 - 269, [James Levine] Book Chapter, 2005

"Aboutness and the Argument of 'On Denoting'" in, editor(s)Guido Imaguire Bernard Linsky , On Denoting: 1905-2005, Munich, Philosophia Verlag, 2005, pp29-97 , [James Levine] Book Chapter, 2005

"Analysis and Decomposition in Frege and Russell" in, editor(s)Michael Beaney, Erich Reck , Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leadidng Philosophers, Volume IV: Frege's Philosophy of Thought and Language, London and New York, Routledge, 2005, pp392 - 413, [James Levine] Book Chapter, 2005

James Levine, "On the 'Gray's Elegy' Argument and its Bearing on Frege's Theory of Sense", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 69, (2), 2004, p251-295 Journal Article, 2004

James Levine, "Analysis and Decomposition in Frege and Russell", The Philosophical Quarterly, 52, (207), 2002, p195-216 Journal Article, 2002

"Logical Form, General Sentences, and Russell's Path to 'On Denoting'" in, editor(s)Richard Gaskin , Grammar in Early Analytic Philosophy, London, Routledge, 2001, pp74-115 , [James Levine] Book Chapter, 2001

James Levine, "On Russell's Vulnerability to Russell's Paradox", History and Philosophy of Logic, 22, (4), 2001, p207-231 Journal Article, 2001

"The What and the That: Theories of Singular Thought in Bradley, Russell, and the early Wittgenstein" in, editor(s)Guy Stock , Appearance versus Reality, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998, pp19-72 , [James Levine] Book Chapter, 1998

James Levine, "Acquaintance, Denoting Concepts, and Sense", The Philosophical Review, 107, (3), 1998, p415-445 Journal Article, 1998

James Levine, "From Absolute Idealism to The Prinicples of Mathematics", International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 6, (1), 1998, p87-127 Journal Article, 1998

James Levine, "Logic and Truth in Frege", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume, 1996, p141 - 175 Journal Article, 1996

James Levine, "Putnam, Davidson, and the Seventeenth-Century Picture of Mind and World", International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 1, (2), 1993, p193 - 230 Journal Article, 1993

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

James Levine, Assessing Quine's Philosophy in Light of his Philosophical Development, The Origins and Legacy of Quine's Naturalism, University of Glasgow, December 2019, 2019 Conference Paper, 2019

James Levine, On Quine's Naturalism (and Russell's), Themes from Alan Weir, University of Glasgow, December 2018, 2018 Conference Paper, 2018

James Levine, Formal Concepts and Showing in the Early and Middle Wittgenstein, 2018 Conference Paper, 2018