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A/PROF NEIL LEVY



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Organization: Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry
Position: PRINCIPAL RESEARCH FELLOW
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Homepage: http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/cappe/staffandvisitors/levy.php
Work: 8344 3855
Fax: 9348 2130
Building: Old Quadrangle Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Free will and moral responsibility Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy Monash University 18-Jul-2006
Bachelor of Arts (honours) Monash University 31-Dec-1992
Doctor of Philosophy Monash University 31-Dec-1995

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Neuroethics: The Practical and the Philosophical Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Autonomy is (Largely) Irrelevant
    Year: 2009
    Journal: American Journal of Bioethics
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 50
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  • Autonomy is (Largely) Irrelevant.
    Year: 2009
    Journal: American Journal of Bioethics
    Volume: 9
    Page numbers: 50
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  • Luck and History-Sensitive Compatibilism
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Philosophical Quarterly
    Volume: 59
    Issue: 235
    Page numbers: 237-251
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  • Neuroethics: Ethics and the Sciences of the Mind
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Philosophy Compass
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 69-81
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  • Recent Developments in Free Will
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Philosophy Compass
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 96-133
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Restrictivism is a Covert Compatibilism
    Year: 2008
    Book: Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility
    Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press(Newcastle)
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Journal Articles

  • Bad Luck Once Again.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
    Volume: 77
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 749-754
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  • Counterfactual Intervention and Agents’ Capacities.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Philosophy
    Volume: 105
    Page numbers: 223-239
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  • Does Phenomenology Overflow Access?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Consciousness Studies
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 29-38
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  • Going Beyond the Evidence
    Year: 2008
    Journal: American Journal of Bioethics
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 19-21
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  • Neuroethics and Psychiatry
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Current Opinion in Psychiatry
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 568-571
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  • Restoring Control: Comments on George Sher
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Philosophia: philosophical quarterly of Israel
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 213-221
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Book Chapters

  • Institutions, Individuals and Accountability
    Year: 2007
    Book: Informed Consent and Clinician Accountability
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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  • Punishing the Dirty
    Year: 2007
    Book: Politics and Morality
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Against Sex Selection
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Southern Medical Journal
    Volume: 100
    Page numbers: 107 - 109
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  • Agents and Mechanisms: Fischer’s Way
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Philosophical Quarterly
    Volume: 57
    Issue: 226
    Page numbers: 123-130
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  • Doxastic Responsibility
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Synthese
    Volume: 155
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 127-155
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  • Norms, Conventions, and Psychopaths
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 163-170
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  • Radically Socialized Knowledge and Conspiracy Theories
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Episteme
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 181 - 192
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  • Rethinking Neuroethics in the Light of Radical Externalism
    Year: 2007
    Journal: American Journal of Bioethics
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 3 - 11
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  • The Responsibility of the Psychopath Revisited
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 129-138
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  • The Social: A Missing Term in the Debate over Addiction and Voluntary Control
    Year: 2007
    Journal: American Journal of Bioethics
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 35 - 36
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • On the competence of substance users to consent to treatment programs
    Year: 2006
    Book: Ethical Challenges for Intervening in Drug Use
    Publisher: Office of International Criminal Justice(Huntsville)
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  • The Feeling of Doing.
    Year: 2006
    Book: Disorders of Volition
    Publisher: MIT Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • Autonomy and Addiction
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Canadian Journal of Philosophy
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 427-448
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  • Cognitive Scientific Challenges to Morality.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Philosophical Psychology
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 567-587
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  • Determinist Deliberations
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Dialectica
    Volume: 60
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 453-459
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  • Determinist Deliberations.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Dialectica
    Volume: 60
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 453-459
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  • Respecting Rights… To Death.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Medical Ethics
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 608-611
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  • Respecting Rights...To Death
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Medical Ethics
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 608-611
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  • The Case for Physician-Assisted Suicide: How Can it Possibly Be Proven?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Medical Ethics
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 335-338
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  • The Wisdom of the Pack.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Philosophical Explorations
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 99-103
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  • What Evolves When Morality Evolves?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 612-620
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  • addiction, autonomy & ego-depletion: a response to Bennett Foddy & Julian Savulescu
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Bioethics
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 16 - 20
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Amputees by choice: Body integrity identity disorder and the ethics of amputation
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Applied Philosophy
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 75-86
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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  • Contrastive explanations: A dilemma for libertarians
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Dialectica
    Volume: 59
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 51-61
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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  • Downshifting and meaning in life
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Ratio
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 176-189
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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  • Imaginative resistance and the moral/conventional distinction
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Philosophical Psychology
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 231-241
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing
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  • Libet's impossible demand
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Consciousness Studies
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 67-76
    Publisher: Imprint Academic(Exeter)
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  • Reproductive cloning and a (kind of) genetic fallacy
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Bioethics
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 232-250
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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  • The good, the bad and the blameworthy
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-14
    Publisher: Annenberg Center, University of Southern California
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • What makes us Moral? Crossing the Boundaries of Biology
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Oneworld Publications(Oxford)
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Journal Articles

  • A Will of One's Own: Consciousness, Control, and Character
    Year: 2004
    Journal: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 459-470
    Publisher: Pergamon
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  • Cohen and Kinds: A Response to Nathan Nobis
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Applied Philosophy
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 213-217
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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  • Doing without Deliberation: Automatism, Automaticity, and Moral Accountability
    Year: 2004
    Journal: International Review of Psychiatry
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 209-215
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing(Basingstroke)
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  • Epistemic Akrasia and the Subsumption of Evidence: A Reconsideration
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Croatian Journal of Philosophy
    Volume: IV
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 149-156
    Publisher: Kruzak(Zagreb)
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  • Evolutionary Psychology, Human Universals & the Standard Social Science Model
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Biology and Philosophy
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 459-472
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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  • Foucault as Virtue Ethicist
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Foucault Studies
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 20-31
    Publisher: Queensland University of Technology(Brisbane)
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  • Good Character: Too Little, Too Late
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Mass Media Ethics
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 109-119
    Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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  • Self-Deception and Moral Responsibility
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Ratio
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 3184
    Page numbers: 294-311
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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  • The Responsibility of Lawyers and the Responsiblity of Philosophers
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy
    Volume: 29
    Page numbers: 172-178
    Publisher: Australian Society of Legal Philosophy(Canberra)
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  • Why Frankfurt Examples Don't Beg the Question: A Reply to Woodward
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Social Philosophy
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 211-215
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Analytic and continental philosophy: explaining the differences
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Metaphilosophy
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 284-304
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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  • Cultural membership and moral responsibility
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Monist
    Volume: 86
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 145-163
    Publisher: Hegeler Institute
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  • Descriptive relativism: assessing the evidence
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Value Inquiry
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 165-177
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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  • Self-deception and responsibility for addiction
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Applied Philosophy
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 133-142
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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  • The justification of the capabilities approach
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Review Journal of Political Philosophy
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 133-142
    Publisher: Anu Books(Meerut)
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  • What (if anything) is wrong with bestiality?
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Social Philosophy
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 444-456
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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Reports

  • A dilemma for libertarians
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics(Melbourne)
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  • Imaginative resistance and the moral/conventional distinction
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics(Melbourne)
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  • Responsibility for belief
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • Moral relativism: a short introduction
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Oneworld Publications(Oxford)
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  • Sartre
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Oneworld Publications(Oxford)
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Journal Articles

  • A Gresham's Gresham’s Law for Reporting About Addiction
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 1-8
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  • Against Philanthropy, Individual and Corporate
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Business and Professional Ethics Journal
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 95-108
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  • Deafness, culture and choice
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Medical Ethics
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 284-285
    Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group(London)
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  • Excusing responsibility for the inevitable
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Philosophical Studies
    Volume: 111
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 43-52
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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  • In defence of entrapment in journalism (and beyond)
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Applied Philosophy
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 121-130
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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  • Reconsidering cochlear implants: the lessons of Martha's Vineyard
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Bioethics
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 134-153
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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  • Self-ownership: defending Marx against Cohen
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Social Theory and Practice
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 77-99
    Publisher: Florida State University, Department of Philosophy
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  • The apology paradox and the non-identity problem
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Philosophical Quarterly
    Volume: 52
    Issue: 208
    Page numbers: 358-368
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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  • The intrinsic value of cultures
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Philosophy in the Contemporary World
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 49-57
    Publisher: Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
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  • Virtual child pornography: the eroticization of inequality
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Ethics and Information Technology
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 319-323
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Dordrecht)
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