Joseph Levine (philosopher)
Joseph Levine | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 January 1952 |
| Spouse | Louise Antony |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Main interests | Philosophy of mind Consciousness Philosophy of Language Metaphysics |
| Notable ideas | Explanatory gap |
Joseph Levine (born January 17, 1952) is an American philosopher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who received his PhD from Harvard University in 1981. He works on philosophy of mind and is best known for formulating the explanatory gap argument against materialist explanations for consciousness. This has been cited as a precursor to David Chalmers's formulation of the hard problem of consciousness. Levine is also the author of several popular and academic philosophy books and articles.