Michael Levin

Michael Levin (; born 21 May 1943) is an American philosopher and writer. A professor emeritus of philosophy at City College of New York,

Philosophical, political and social views Levin advocates reliabilism and heritability of racial differences.

Homosexuality Levin has questioned the morality, wisdom, and naturalness of homosexuality. He argues that homosexual acts are abnormal because their participants are not using their sexual organs for what they are designed, and that this abnormality must be a source of unhappiness, even though it may go unrecognized. In his book Sexual Desire (1986), the philosopher Roger Scruton criticized Levin's attempt to show that homosexuality is abnormal, calling it absurd. Timothy Murphy has criticized Levin's arguments about homosexuality in detail.

Feminism Feminist Susan Faludi writes in Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (1991) that Levin's 1988 book Feminism and Freedom characterizes feminism as an "antidemocratic, if not totalitarian, ideology" without a single redeeming feature.

Race Levin agrees with Arthur Jensen and Richard Lynn that white people score higher on IQ tests than black people due to genetic differences—a view that has been criticized by scholars such as Leon Kamin of Princeton University.

Levin defended this view in an exchange in the journal Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

Throughout the 1990s Levin frequently wrote about race differences in intelligence, biology, and morality for the white nationalist publication American Renaissance. The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies him as an "unabashed white supremacist."

Personal life Like Michael H. Hart, he is one of the few Jewish supporters of white nationalism.

Levin is married to philosopher of mathematics, Margarita Levin. A Misuse of Bayes' Theorem, Informal Logic, 1999. Tortuous Dualism, Journal of Philosophy, 1995.

Articles and essays Levin, M. E. 1968. Fine, Mathematics, and Theory Change. The Journal of Philosophy 65, no. 2: pages 52–56. Levin, M. E. 1971. Length Relativity. The Journal of Philosophy 68, no. 6: pages 164–174. Levin, M. E. 1973. On explanation in archaeology: a rebuttal to Fritz and Plog. American Antiquity 38, no. 4: pages 387–395. Levin, M. E. 1974. Kant's Derivation of the Formula of Universal Law as an Ontological Argument. Kant-Studien 65, no. 1-4: pages 50–66. Levin, M. E. 1975. Kripke's argument against the identity thesis. The Journal of Philosophy 72, no. 6: pages 149–167. Levin, M. E. 1975. Relativity, Spatial and Ontological. Nous: pages 243–267. Levin, M. E. 1976. The extensionality of causation and causal-explanatory contexts. Philosophy of Science 43, no. 2: pages 266–277. Levin, M. E. 1976. On the ascription of functions to objects, with special reference to inference in archaeology. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 6, no. 3: page 227. Levin, M. E. 1977. Animal rights evaluated. The Humanist 37, no. 4: pages 12–15. Levin, M. E., and M. R. Levin. 1977. Flagpoles, shadows and deductive explanation. Philosophical Studies 32, no. 3: pages 293–299. Levin, M. E., and M. R. Levin. 1978. The independence results of set theory: An informal exposition. Synthese 38, no. 1: pages 1-34. Levin, M. E., and M. R. Levin. 1978. Lavoisier's Slow Burn. Philosophy of Science 45, no. 4: pages 626–629. Levin, M. E. 1979. On theory-change and meaning-change. Philosophy of Science 46, no. 3: pages 407–424. Levin, M. E. 1979. Quine's View (s) of Logical Truth. Essays on the Philosophy ofW. V. Quine: pages 45–67. Levin, M. E. 1979. The universalizability of moral judgments revisited. Mind 88, no. 1: page 115. Levin, M. E. 1979. Forcing and the Indeterminacy of Translation. Erkenntnis 14, no. 1: pages 25–32. Levin, M. E. 1979. Ahab as Socratic Philosopher: The Myth of the Cave Inverted. ATQ: The American Transcendental Quarterly 41: pages 61–73. Levin, M. E., and M. R. Levin. 1979. The modal confusion in Rawls' original position. Analysis 39, no. 2: page 82. Levin, M. E. 1980. Reverse discrimination, shackled runners, and personal identity. Philosophical Studies 37, no. 2: pages 139–149. Levin, M. E. 1981. Equality of opportunity. The Philosophical Quarterly 31, no. 123: pages 110–125. Levin, M. E. 1981. Is racial discrimination special? The Journal of Value Inquiry 15, no. 3: pages 225–234. Levin, M. E. 1981. Phenomenal Properties. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 42, no. 1: pages 42–58. Levin, M. E. 1984. Why Homosexuality is Abnormal. The Monist 67, no. 2, Sociobiology and Philosophy: pages 251–283. Levin, M. E. 1984. Why we believe in other minds. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 44, no. 3: pages 343–359. Levin, M. E. 2007. Bundling Hume with Kripkenstein. Synthese 155, no. 1: pages 35–64. Levin, M. E. 2007. Compatibilism and Special Relativity. The Journal of philosophy 104, no. 9: pages 433–463. Levin, M. E. 1982 "The Case for Torture." Newsweek 7 Jun. 1982. Levin, M. E. nd. In Defense of Scrooge , a libertarian apology in favor of the popular protagonist of Dickens' A Christmas Carol