Philosophy

Michael Levine Publications

Books

The Philosophical Foundations of Architectural Discourse. With Bill Taylor, in progress.

Thinking Through Film: Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies. With Damian Cox. Boston: Wiley-Blackwell. In progress.

Politics Most Unusual: Violence, Sovereignty and Democracy in the ‘War on Terror’. With Damian Cox and Saul Newman. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. xiv+198.

Integrity and the Fragile Self. M. Levine; D. Cox; M. LaCaze. London: Ashgate, 2003, xix+168.

Pantheism: A Non-Theistic Concept of Deity. London and New York: Routledge, 1994, xii + 400. Trans. Italian, 1997. Il Panteismo, Daniele Ballarini, trans. Edizioni Culturali Internazionali Genova.

Hume and The Problem of Miracles: A Solution. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989, viii + 212. Philosophical Studies Series.

Edited Books

Racism in Mind. M. Levine and Tamas Pataki (eds.). Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004, 304. Trans. Portuguese, 2005. Madras Editora (Brazil).

The Analytic Freud: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. London/ N.Y, Routledge, 2000, xii + 320.

Edited Journals

The Philosophical Forum. "New Essays on Architecture and Ethics," 35:2 (2004). co-edited

Monist. Issue on Pantheism, 80:2 (1997).

Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. "Religion and Method in the Study of Religion," 9 (1997). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Reference Articles

Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy. J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman (eds.). New York: Macmillan Library Reference (Thomson Gale Publisher), 2008. "Pantheism and the Environment."

Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, A. Soble (ed), 2 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005. "Arts, Sex, and Philosophy," 62-74.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (ed.) E. Zalta, Stanford: (http://plato.stanford.edu/)

"Architecture and Philosophy." Co-author Bill Taylor. Forthcoming 2008.

"Miracles," 1996; 2005-2009. Reprinted PhilosophyNews.com Monday, March 29, 1999.

"Pantheism" 1996; 2007

"Integrity," with Damian Cox and Marguerite La Caze. 2001; 2004

Articles

"Philosophers on Miracles." The Companion to Miracles. Ed., Graham H. Twelftree. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

“Pantheism.” A Companion to Philosophy of Religion second edition. Eds., Charles Taliaferro and Paul Draper (eds.). Oxford: Blackwell, 2009.

 “About Hume and Miracles.”  Nowa Krytyka  (New Critics), Szczecin, Poland. www.nowakrytyka.phg.pl, Issue on Hume, 2008, 211-235.

“Damned Lying Politicians: integrity and truth in politics.” Personal Integrity and Professional Ethics. Tim Dare and Brad Wendel (eds.). With Damian Cox. Cambridge Scholars Press. Forthcoming, 2009.

“Philosophy of Religion's Poltical Character: Myths of Tolererance and the Re-sanctification of Politics.” Politics and Religion in the New Century: Philosophical Perspectives. Philip Quadrio (ed.). University Sydney Press, 2009, 60-90.

“Spaced Out and Down By Law: Geography, Politics and the Ethics of Homelessness.” Ethics, Place and Environment: Journal of Philosophy and Geography 11:1, 2008, 91-105.

"Hume on Miracles and Immortality." Blackwell Companion to Hume. Elizabeth Radcliffe (ed.). Oxford: Blackwell, 2008, 353-370.

"Terrible Terror: Sovereignty, Violence and Democracy in the ‘War on Terror’.” Interrogating the War on Terror. Deborah Staines (ed.). Cambridge Scholars Press: Cambridge, 2007, 81-94. Co- author, Saul Newman.

"Non-theistic Conceptions of God: When God Isn't God." Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Religion. London and New York: Routledge, 2007, 237-248.

“Mediated Memories: The Politics of the Past.” Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities 11.2 2006, 117-136.

"War, Politics and Race: Reflection on Violence in the 'War on Terror.'" Theoria 110, 2006, 23-49. Co-author, Saul Newman.

“Violinists Run Amuck in South Dakota: Flyscreens Removed in the Badlands!” Philosophical Papers 35:2, 2006, 267-281. Co-author, Damian Cox.

"Sacred Cows and The Changing Face of Terrorism: Cranking it Up a Notch." The International Journal of Human Rights, 10, no 4, 2006, 359-371. Co-author, Saul Newman.

"Mad, Bad and Evil." In Tom Mason (ed), Forensic Psychiatry: Influences of Evil. London: Humana Press, 2006, 295-312.

"Taste, Judgment and Ethics: Philosophical Aspects of Discourse on Landscape, Law and Identity." In The Geography of Law: Landscape, Identity and Regulation. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2006, 33-48.

"War and Violence: The Problem of Teaching the Like-Minded." Peace Review A Journal of Social Justice 17:2 and 3 March, 2005, 247-259. Co-author, Damian Cox.

"Introduction to Aristotle's Metaphysics." New York: Barnes & Noble, 2005,vii-xvii.

"Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature." New York: Barnes & Noble, 2005, xii-xxii.

"Believing Badly." Philosophical Papers 33:3, November 2004, 309-328. Co-author, Damian Cox.

"Introduction: New Essays on Ethics and Architecture," with W. Taylor and K. Miller. Philosophical Forum, 35:2 (2004), 103-115.

"Contemporary Christian Analytic Philosophy of Religion." Faith and Reason: Friends or Foes in the New Millenium? eds. A. Fisher OP and H.Ramsay. Adelaide: Australian Theological Forum, 2004, 134-170.

"Fun Night Out: Horror and Other Pleasures of the Cinema." Steven Schneider (ed.), The Horror Film and Psychoanalysis: Freud's Worst Nightmares. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pr, 2004, 35-54. Prepublished Senses of Cinema (www.sensesofcinema.com) 15, July 2001.

"Philosophy and Racism." In Racism in Mind: Philosophical Explanations of Racism and Its Implications. M. Levine and Tamas Pataki (eds.). Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004, 78-96.

"Can the Concept of Enlightenment Evolve?," Asian Philosophy, 13:2-3 (2003), 115-29.

"Etiology of Emotion and Ossification of Self: You Can't Change People Because People Don't Change." Man Cheung Chung (ed.), Psychoanalytic Knowledge and the Nature of Mind. London: Palgrave (Macmillan), 2003, 96-119.

"Feeling For Buffy—The Girl Next Door." In Buffy and Philosophy. Philosophy and Popular Culture Series. Chicago, Il.: Open Court Press, 2003, 294-308. Co-author Steven Schneider.

"Why is Love so Bizarre?" dolit: The Online Journal of Creative Writing (http://www.dotlit.qut.edu.au/) Queensland Univ of Technology, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 21 Nov, 2002.

"Things Are Forever Changed: Business as Usual." Senses of Cinema 17 (www.sensesofcinema.com). Symposium on Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality. Nov 2001.

"Contemporary Christian Analytic Philosophy of Religion: Biblical Fundamentalism; Terrible Solutions to a Horrible Problem; and Hearing God," Int J Phil Relig 48 (2000), 89-119.

"See No Evil; Hear No Evil; Speak No Evil: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Evil," Psychoanalytic Std 2 (2000), 265-276.

"Should We Strive for Integrity?," J Value Inquiry 33/4 (1999), 519-30. Co-authored with Damian Cox and Marguerite La Caze.

"Introduction: What is Essential to Psychoanalysis?," The Analytic Freud: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. London and New York, Routledge, 2000, 1-7.

"Lucky in Love: Love and Emotion," The Analytic Freud: Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. London and New York, Routledge, 2000, 231-258.

"Atheism and Theism: J.C. Smart and J. Haldane," Canadian J Philosophy 29 (1999), 157-170.

"Loving Individuals for Their Properties: Or, What Was the Colour of Yeats's Mother's Hair?," Iyyun: Jerusalem Phil Qtly 48 (1999), 251-267.

"The Problem of Evil: Strange Mutations; Strange Solutions." K Stoehr (ed.) Philosophy of Religion and Art, vol IV, 20th World Congress Phil (1999), Phil Doc Centre, 127-146.

"Rational Emotion, Emotional Holism, True Love, and Charlie Chaplin," J. Phil Research 24 (1999), 489-506.

"No-Self, Real Self, Ignorance and Self-Deception: Does Self-Deception Require a Self?" Asian Phil. 8 (1998), 103-10.

"Bayesian Analyses of Hume's Argument Concerning Miracles," Phil. and Theology 10 (1998), 101-106.

"Intellectualist and Symbolist Accounts of Religious Belief and Practice," Phil. Social Sciences 27 (1997), 526-544. Reprinted Aust Relig Std Rev. 10 (1997), 51-66.

"God Speak," Religious Studies 34 (1998), 1-16.

"A Cognitive Approach to Ritual: New Method or No Method at All?," Method and Theory Study of Religion, 10 (1998), 30-60. Berlin: E.J. Brill.

"Ninian Smart on the Philosophy of Worldviews," Sophia, 36 (1997), 11-23.

"Religion and Method in the Study of Religion: Introduction," Method and Theory Study of Religion, 9 (1997), 319-23. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

"Religion and Method in the Study of Religion: Response," Method and Theory Study of Religion, 9 (1997), 377-87. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

"Must God Create The Best?," Sophia, 35 (1996), 28-34.

"Appearance and Reality: Misinterpreting Sankara," Asian Philosophy, 5:2 (1995), 151-58.

"‘Telling it Like it Was': History and The Ideal Chronicle," Austra. J. Phil., 72 (1994), 151-72. With J. Malpas.

"Holism and Comparative Ethics," Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 7:2 (1995), 131-62. American Phil Assoc Baumgardt Lecture on Comparative Ethics.

"Pantheism, Ethics and Ecology," Environmental Values, 3 (1994), 121-138.

"Pantheism, Theism, and the Problem of Evil," Intl. J. Philosophy of Religion, 35 (1994), 129-51.

"Swinburne's Heaven: One Hell of a Place," Religious Studies, 29 (1993), 519-531.

"Adams's Modified Divine Command Theory of Ethics", Sophia, 33 (1994), 63-77.

"Transcendence in Theism and Pantheism," Sophia, 31 (1992), 89-123. Reprinted J. of Relig. Pluralism, 4 (1994), 59-96. McGill Univ., 1994.

"Monism and Pantheism," Southern J Phil, 30 (1992), 95-110.

"Deep Structure and The Comparative Philosophy of Religion," Religious Studies, 28 (1992), 387-399.

"Pantheism, Substance and Unity," Int J Phil Relig, 32 (1992), 1-23.

"Historical Anti-Realism: Boethian Historians Tell Their Story," Monist, 74 (1991), 230-9. History and Ontology.

"Robinson on Berkeley: ‘Bad Faith' or Naive Idealism?," Idealistic Studies, 22 (1992), 162-77. With Neil Levi.

"Berkeley: How to Make a Mistake," Philosophia, 22 (1993), 29 -39.

"Divine Unity and Superfluous Synonymity," J. of Speculative Phil., 4, (1990), 211-236. Reprinted in part as "What is Pantheism?," Dialogue and Alliance, 6 (1992), 17-33.

"If There Is a God any Experience Which Seems to Be of God Will Be Genuine," Relig Std, 26 (1990), 207-17.

"Mystical Experience and Non-Basically Justified Belief," Religious Studies, 25, (1989), 335-345.

"Alvin Goldman's Epistemology and Cognition: An Introduction, Philosophia, 19, (1989), 209-225.

"Coffee and Casuistry: It Doesn't Matter Who Caused What," in Brody, Baruch A. (ed.), Moral Theory and Moral Judgments (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1988), 87-98.

"Camus, Hare, and The Meaning of Life," Sophia, 27 (1988), 13-30.

"What Does Death Have to Do With The Meaning of Life?," Religious Studies 23, (1987), 457-465.

"Madden's Account of Necessity in Causation," Philosophia, 18, (1988), 75-96.

"Belief in Miracles: Tillotson's Argument Against Transubstantiation as a Model For Hume," Int J Phil Relig, 23 (1988), pp 125-160.

"Mackie's Account Of Necessity In Causation," Proc Aristotelian Soc (1986/7) 87, 75-89.

"The Deterministic and Ontological Implications of the Logical Entailment Analysis of Causation," Idealistic Std (1987), 1-13.

"Berkeley's Theocentric Mentalism: Pantheism?," Sophia, 26, 1 (1987), 30-41.

"Formal Foundationalism and Skepticism," Metaphilosophy, 17, No.1 (1986), 87-89.

"Cartesian Materialism and Conservation: Berkelean Immaterialism?," Southern J. Phil, 24(1986), 247-59.

"More On 'Does Traditional Theism Entail Pantheism?'," Intl. J. for Phil. of Religion, 20 (1986), 31-35.

"The Role Of Reason In The Ethics Of Maimonides: Or Why Maimonides Could Have Had A Doctrine of Natural Law Even If He Did Not," J. Religious Ethics, 14, (1986), 279-295. Reprinted: "Maimonides: A Natural Law Theorist?," in Vera Lex: Journal Natural Law Society, X (1990), 11-15.

"Self-Authenticating Experiences of God: Reply To Robert Oakes," Int. J Phil Religion, 16 (1985), 161-3.

"`Can We Speak Literally of God?'," Religious Studies, 21, No.1 (1985), 53-59.

"Hume's Analysis of Causation in Relation to His Analysis of Miracles," History Phil. Qtly, (1984),195-02.

"Why Traditional Theism Does Not Entail Pantheism," Sophia, 23, No.2 (1984), 13-20.

"Can There Be Self-Authenticating Experiences of God?," Religious Studies, 19, (1983), 229-234.

Kierkegaardian Dogma: Inwardness and Objective Uncertainty," Int. J. for Phil. of Relig., 14 (1983), 183-87.

"Hume on Miracles: The Coalescence Of the A Priori With the A Posteriori Arguments Against Justified Belief," Proc XVII World Congress of Phil (l983).

"Why the Incarnation Is a Superfluous Detail For Kierkegaard, Religious Studies, 18 (1982), 171-175.

"Kierkegaard: What Does the Subjective Individual Risk?," Int. J. Philosophy of Relig. 13 (1982), 13-20.

Critical Studies

Simon’s embrace of the Great Southern Ocean in four dimensions: the house at Bremer Bay, Western Australia.” Architectural Review Australia, January 2007, 69-75.

Religious Pluralism and Truth Essays On Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion, (ed.) Thomas Dean, (Albany: State Univ. of New York Pr., 1995), Asian Philosophy, 6 (1996). Reprinted in Sophia, 36 (1997).

Seek My Face, Speak My Name: A Contemporary Jewish Theology, Arthur Green, (New Jersey: Jason Aronson, 1992), Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 11, No.4 (1993), 83-92.

Revelation in Religious Belief, George Mavrodes, (Philadelphia: Temple Univ Press, 1988), Int J Phil Relig (1989), 181-192.

Faith and Rationality, Plantinga and Wolterstorff, eds. (Notre Dame: Univ. Notre Dame, 1983), Philosophia, 16, (1986), 447-460.

Religions Art: An Interpretation, T. Martland (N.Y.: State Univ. N.Y. Pr, 1981), Philosophia, 16 (1986), 101-9.

Reviews

Times Literary Supplement, Mind, Philosophia, Aust J Phil, Int J Phil of Relig, Asian Phil, Relig Std Rev

Hume's Abject Failure The Argument Against Miracles, John Earman (New York: Oxford Univ Press, 2000), Hume Std, 27 (2001).

Ethical and Religious Thought in Analytic Philosophy of Religion, Quentin Smith (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997) Aust J of Phil 77 (1999).

Divine Discourse: Philosophical Reflections on the Claim that God Speaks, Nicholas Wolterstorff. (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press, 1995), Mind, 106 (1997), 359-363.

Ethics, Religion and Biodiversity: Relations Between Conservation and Cultural Values, Lawrence Hamilton, ed. (Cambridge: White Horse Pr, 1993), Aust J Phil, 74 (1996), 519-521.

Catalogue Essay

“Lighting for the Frankensteins: A glimpse of creation up north.” VideoDome explores the boundaries between science and art with works inspired by astronomical and other physical phenomena. The VideoDome installation is a collaboration between Pete Wheeler, Planetarium at Scitech; Paul Bourke, Senior Visualisation Research Fellow at Western Australian Supercomputer Program at UWA; and new media artist David Carson. Touring Australia September 2008-March 2011.