Amy Levine

I am a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.  I completed my PhD in  Philosophy and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago in 2024.  

I work mostly in ethics, including metaethics and moral psychology, but I also have a strong interest in 19th and 20th century European Philosophy and in psychoanalysis. My book project, Anxious Subjects: On not knowing how to live draws on Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Freud to offer an account of our agency as essentially anxious, in the same way that it is essentially rational or self-conscious.  I argue that our efforts  to answer the question how to live involve not only deliberative practical reasoning, but also creative and interpretative forms of practical thinking. 

Email: amylevine [at] fas [dot] harvard [dot] edu