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Gary Levvis

Philosophy
Lecturer

M.A., Ph.D. University of Tennessee
B.A. Furman University
Office: Torrington Campus
Phone: (860) 626-6821
Fax: (860) 626-6895
Email:gary.levvis@uconn.edu

 

Areas of Specialty / Research Interest

Philosophy of Law, Ethics, Philosophy of Language, History of Analytic Philosophy.

Courses Taught

 

PHIL 101 Problems in Philosophy
PHIL 102 Philosophy and Logic
PHIL 104 Philosophy and Social Ethics
PHIL 105 Philosophy and Religion
PHIL 200 Philosophical Issues in Contemporary Life: Legal/Moral Issues in International Human Rights
PHIL 215 Ethics
PHIL 226 Philosophy of Law
PHIL 256 Philosophy of Religion
PHIL 297 Variable Topics: Religion, Rights, and Law
PHIL 297 Variable Topics: Bioethics
SCI 240 The Nature of Scientific Thought
PHIL/HRTS 219 Topics in Philosophy and Human Rights: Children’s Rights (Fall 2006)

 

Biography

Gary Levvis moved to Connecticut with his wife, Meg, and their son in 1994 after teaching undergraduate and graduate courses at Clemson University and LSU. Levvis is currently completing a book on Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language as well as projects related to international law and children’s rights. He coaches the Hartland School debate team in his free time and has recently completed a book, “A Young Person’s Guide to Cross-Examination Debate and Mock Trial.”

Selected Publications / Exhibitions / Awards

  • “Between Theory and Practice: A Dilemma for the Morawetz-Wittgenstein View of Law,” Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 29, no. 2, 2006.

  • “The So-Called (and Actual!) Realism of the Tractatus,” Grazer Philosophische Studien, Vol. 56, 1998.

  • “Quantification Within Projectivist Analyses of Belief Attributions,” The Southwest Philosophy Review , July, 1996.

  • “Grammatical Propositions as Linguistic Exemplars: A Refutation of Katz’s Semantic Platonism,” Philosophical Investigations, April, 1996.

  • "Una Defensa de la Permisibilidad Moral del Suicidio Por el Medico Basada en el Principio de Interes de Feinberg” (“A Defense of Physician-Assisted Suicide Based on Feinberg’s Interest Principle”), Perspectivas Bioeticas en Las Americas, January, 1996.

  • “Sievert on Ethics in Wittgenstein’s Notebooks,” The Southwest Philosophy Review, v. 10, 1994.

  • “The Wittgensteinian Consistency of Scepticism: An Antiseptic for the Anti-Sceptic,” Philosophical Investigations, v. 15, 1992.

  • “Why We Would Not Understand a Talking Lion: Wittgenstein on the Limits of Interpretation,” Between the Species: v. 8, 1992.

  • “The Principle of Relevant Similarity,” Journal of Value Inquiry, v. 25, 1991.

(May 2006)