Graduation Year: '91

address: 548 Riverside Dr.
#6A
New York, NY 10027

occupation: Law student at Columbia Law School

Email address: KML56@columbia.edu

A brief biography here may be sufficient. If anybody wants to get in touch with me and ask me further questions, I am more than happy to answer them.

In 1991, after majoring in philosophy at Williams, I entered the Ph.D. program at Rutgers in New Brunswick, NJ. In 1999, I earned my Ph.D. My dissertation, "Free Will Hunting", focused on major free will issues. I also specialized in early modern philosophy and just had my first paper published -- "Hume, the New Hume, and Causal Connections" (in Hume Studies, Summer 2000).

Overall, I highly recommend Rutgers -- especially if one is interested in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, or cognitive science. I myself was not interested in these areas and still had a great experience there. This is largely because they are strong in many of the other areas, have excellent teacher-student and student-student relations, and pretty much let me do my own thing once I got to the dissertation stage. I do NOT recommend this department to anybody interested in Continental philosophy. Unfortunately, unlike Williams, they really don't offer anything in this area (e.g., Nietzsche, Hegel, Derrida, etc.) About the closest they come to anything Continental is a periodic course by Bruce Wilshire in American philosophy. It's a good course despite the fact that Bruce Wilshire fancies himself a Continental crusader amidst a ship full of heathen analytic fools.

I am now at Columbia Law School largely for personal and professional reasons. If anybody wishes to know why I didn't go into academia and/or why I did go into law (as opposed to something else like medicine or business), I am once again happy to give this person my reasons.

Hope all is well with everybody at -- and from -- the Williams philosophy program. I remember it with GREAT fondness!

--Ken Levy '91