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Michael Levin

Michael Levin is an American philosopher and writer, a professor emeritus of philosophy at City College of New York known for his work on epistemology and his contested views on race.

born 1943Work on reliabilism in epistemologyContested views on race and intelligenceThe book Feminism and Freedom

Born: 21 May 1943
Occupation: philosopher, university teacher, writer, art historian
Education: Columbia University, Michigan State University

Michael Levin was born in 1943

Michael Levin was born on 21 May 1943. He is Jewish and is married to Margarita Levin, a philosopher of mathematics.

He finished Stuyvesant High School in 1960 and earned a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University in 1964. He received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1969, with a dissertation on Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics.

Levin taught philosophy at City College of New York, where he became professor emeritus. His main research areas are epistemology, including reliabilism and Gettier problems, and the philosophy of race. He has also written on metaphysics, language, logic, science and animal rights, rejecting theories of animal rights.

His views drew wide criticism. In 1988 he published Feminism and Freedom, a critique of feminism, and he has argued that homosexuality is abnormal. He holds that IQ gaps between white and black people are genetic, wrote for American Renaissance in the 1990s, and the Southern Poverty Law Center calls him a white supremacist.