DONALD LEVY

Education

Cornell University 1953-57 B.A. 1957
University of Washington 1957-58 M.A. 1958
Cornell University 1958-61 Ph.D. 1980

Publications

“How to Psychoanalyze a Robot: Unconscious Cognition and the Evolution of Intentionality,” Minds and Machines, volume 13, #2, May 2003, pp. 203-212.

“Incompleteness and Experimental Untestability in Psychoanalysis”, article in PSYCHOANALYSIS AT THE LIMIT: EPISTEMOLOGY, MIND AND THE QUESTION OF SCIENCE, Jon Mills, editor, State university of New York Press, Albany, 2004.

“Unconscious: History of the Concept,” encyclopedia entry in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, N. J. Smelser and P. B. Baltes, editors-in chief (Pergamon/Elsevier, 2001), pp. 15943-15945

Review of E. Erwin, A Final Accounting: Philosophical and Empirical Issues in Freudian Psychology, Mind, July, 2001, volume 110, #439, 740-746

Freud Among the Philosophers: The Psychoanalytic Unconscious and Its Philosophical Critics (Yale University Press, 1996)

Review of G. G. Noam and T. E. Wren, editors, The Moral Self, in Philosophical Psychology, Fall, 1995, pp. 423-426

“Grunbaum’s Freud”, Inquiry, 31 (June 1988), pp. 193-215. A shorter version appeared in PsychCritique, volume 2 #3, 1987, pp. 329-336, under the title “The Foundations of Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique”

“Is Work Sharing Fair to Workers?”, in G. Ezorsky, editor, Moral Rights in the Work-Place (SUNY Press, 1986)

“Post-hypnotic Suggestion and the Existence of Unconscious Mental Activity”, Analysis, October, 1983, pp. 184-89

“Sexual Objectification and the Goals of Sexual Liberation”, Journal of Social Philosophy, volume XIV, #4, 1983, pp. 472-98

“Wittgenstein on the Form of Psychoanalytic Interpretation”, International Review of Psycho-Analysis, 1983, volume 10, pp. 105-9

“Perversion and the Unnatural as Moral Categories”, Ethics, volume 90, #2, January 1980, pp. 191-202. A slightly revised version of this essay appeared in The Philosophy of Sex , edited by A. Soble (Littlefield Adams & Co., 1980), pp. 169-89. The original Ethics version appeared in Ethical Theory, edited by C Rostankowski and M. Velasquez (Prentice Hall, 1984), and in Philosophy of Sex and Love: A Reader, edited by D. M. Borchert, R. Trevas, and A Zucker (Prentice Hall, 1996). The Philosophy of Sex version appeared in Contemporary Moral Problems, edited by J. E. White (West Publishing Co., 1985). An earlier version of the original Ethics essay appeared under the title “A Moral Theory of Perversion and the Unnatural”, in The Life Sciences and Human Values: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Value Inquiry, State University of New York College at Geneseo, edited by J. E. Wilbur, 1979, pp. 107-27

“The Definition of Love in Plato’s Symposium”, Journal of the History of Ideas”, volume XL, #32, April-June, 1979, pp. 285-91. This essay also appeared in Sex, Love and Friendship, an anthology edited by A. Soble and B. Kirshner, in The Value Inquiry Book Series (Rodopi Publishers, Amsterdam and Atlanta, 1997), pp. 14-21

“Comments on Eric Hoffman’s ‘Love As A Kind of Friendship’” , in Sex. Love and Friendship (anthology listed in preceding entry), pp. 120-23

“Macrocosm and Microcosm”, in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Free Press, 1967, volume 5, pp. 121-125

Department of Philosophy

Brooklyn College, City University of New York