David Levy
Lecturer
- Philosophy
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 650 9943
- Email: david.levy@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room 8.01
- City
- 40 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JX
Availability
Office hour: Tuesday 3-4pm
Background
David Levy joined the department in 2004. Prior to that I taught in London. I have previous professional experience with topics in computer science.
I am interested in the nature of understanding, particularly of morals, ethics and people. I am developing an account of moral understanding that is oriented around experiences of morality and the good.
Almost all of the history of philosophy interests me. Recent philosophers whose work I admire include Simone Weil, Stanley Cavell and Peter Winch.
Undergraduate teaching
Wittgenstein; Nature of Moral Understanding; Simone Weil; Freedom, Consent and Political Obligation
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Plato, Kant, Wittgenstein, Simone Weil, Phenomenology, Applied Ethics, Meaning.
Teaching is the most satisfying work I do. I particularly enjoy and value close supervision of postgraduate and undergraduate work. I encourage potential research students to contact me with proposals.
Office hours:
Tuesday 3pm - 4pm
Current PhD students supervised
Martin Kelly (School of Law)
- Bethany Parsons (School of History, Classics & Archaeology)
Research summary
Moral Philosophy, Wittgenstein, Understanding, Plato, Meaning, Simone Weil
Research activities
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Simone Weil: Against being true to yourself
(10 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
What is la force in Simone Weil’s Iliad?
(21 pages)
In:
Philosophical investigations, vol. 43, pp. 19-39
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/phin.12257
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Do we share a project of being in the world well?
(13 pages)
In:
International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 28, pp. 227-239
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2020.1747296
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Wittgenstein's ethics and Wittgensteinian moral philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139519267.051
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Review of Coons and Webber (ed.), Manipulation: Theory and Practice
(3 pages)
In:
Analysis, vol. 76, pp. 404-406
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anw013
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Assimilating supererogation
(16 pages)
In:
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, vol. 77, pp. 227-242
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1358246115000272
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Lecture on Ethics: Ludwig Wittgenstein
(152 pages)
Research output: › Scholarly edition (Published) -
Review of R. Chenavier, Simone Weil: Attention to the Real
(3 pages)
In:
Theology, vol. 117, pp. 213-215
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571X14522949e
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (E-pub ahead of print) -
Autobiographical acts
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Autonomy: Presumptively precluding consequentialism in medical ethics
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Moral authority and wrongdoing
(16 pages)
In:
Philosophical Topics, vol. 38, pp. 107-122
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)