Below is the audio recording of Janet Levin’s John Dewey Lecture, “The Road Taken,” given at the 2020 Pacific Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR.
The audio of the lecture is available here:
“The Road Taken” by Janet Levin
Janet Levin is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Southern California, Dornsife. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research interests are in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and epistemology. She is the author of multiple book chapters and articles, including “Reclaiming the Armchair,” in Palgrave Handbook on Philosophical Methods (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); “Armchair Methodology and Epistemological Naturalism,” Synthese 190, no. 18 (2013); “Do Conceivability Arguments Against Physicalism Beg the Question?” Philosophical Topics (2013); and “Imaginability, Possibility, and Imaginative Resistance,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 41, no. 3 (2011). She served on the Executive Committee of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2005–2008.
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