Steven Levine Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy University of Massachusetts Boston
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	email		steven.levine@umb.edu
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My current research concerns some very basic issues in theoretical philosophy, the relationship between perception, action, and linguistic communication, and the way that these capacities inform our ability to have thoughts with objective content. I examine these questions through the particular prism of the pragmatic tradition in both its classical and contemporary forms. I am currently working on a book on these topics entitled Pragmatism, Objectivity, and Experience. My argument is that the line of Neo-pragmatic thought that runs from Sellars and Davidson, through Rorty, to Brandom, cannot articulate a satisfactory conception of objectivity because of its flawed theory of experience. For a better account Contemporary Pragmatism needs to rehabilitate the Classical Pragmatists rich theory of experience. My work attempts to do this not only utilizing the insights of the Classical pragmatists, but also by drawing upon affiliated contemporary work in the Philosophy of Perception, Phenomenology, and Cognitive Science.