Dr. Yair Levy

I'm a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, working mainly in philosophy of mind and action, philosophy of psychology, and normativity. Before joining Tel-Aviv in 2015, I was a Career Development Fellow at the University of Southampton (UK), and before that a Lecturer at Oxford University, where I completed my D.Phil (PhD) in 2013.

Journal Articles

• 'Who is a Reasoner?'. Forthcoming in Inquiry.
• 'Attention and Voluntariness in the Wandering Mind'. Forthcoming in Journal of Philosophy.
• ‘The Do-able Solution to the Interface Problem’. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 110 (2025): 833-853.
• 'The Priority of Intentional Action: From Developmental to Conceptual Priority'. The Philosophical Quarterly 75 (2025): 598-631.
• 'Neo-Ryleanism about Self-Understanding'. Inquiry 67 (2024): 3328-3354.
• 'Disjunctivism about Intending'. American Philosophical Quarterly 58 (2021): 161-178
• 'Events, Processes, and the Time of a Killing'. Ratio 33 (2020): 138-144.
• ‘Evolutionary Debunking Arguments Meet Evolutionary Science’ (co-authored with Arnon Levy). Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 100 (2020): 491-509.
• ‘What is Mental Action?’ Philosophical Psychology 32 (2019): 971-993.
• ‘Constructivism and the Problem of Normative Indeterminacy’. The Journal of Value Inquiry 53 (2019): 243-253.
• 'Is Attending a Mental Process?' Mind & Language 34 (2019): 283-298
• 'Why Cognitivism?’ Canadian Journal of Philosophy 48 (2018): 223-244.
• Does the Normative Question about Rationality Rest on a Mistake?' Synthese 195 (2017): 2021-2038.
• 'The Debunking Challenge to Realism: How Evolution (Ultimately) Matters' (Co-authored with Arnon Levy). Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, www.jesp.org (2016).
• ‘Action Unified'. Philosophical Quarterly 66 (2015), pp. 65-83.
• 'Normativity and Self-Relations’. Philosophical Studies 172 (2015), pp. 359-374.
• ‘Money Pumps, Diachronic and Synchronic’. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, www.jesp.org (2014).
• ‘Intentional Action First’. The Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (2013), pp. 705-718.

Book chapters

• ‘The Most General Mental Act’, in Brent & Miracchi (eds.), Mental Action and the Conscious Mind (Routledge, 2022).

Book reviews

• Wu, W. (2023). Movements of the Mind: A Theory of Attention, Intention and Action. OUP. In: Philosophy (forthcoming).
• Brennan, Eriksson, Goodin, and Southwood, (2013) Explaining Norms. OUP. in: Mind 124 (2015): 612-616.

In progress

• ‘Taking Action First’. Book manuscript. Under contract with Oxford University Press.
• ‘Is Intending a Propositional Attitude?’ Unver review.
• ‘Trying to Act, Disjunctively’. Under review
• ‘Between Inner and Outer Speech: Continuity and its Limits’. Under review
• ‘Joint Action, Dynamically Explained’.
• ‘The Conclusion of Practical Reasoning’.