# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-levine
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:47:31.202Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-levine"
name: "Joseph Levine"
slug: "joseph-levine"
description: "Joseph Levine is an American philosopher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who received his PhD from Harvard University in 1981. He works on philosophy of mind and is best known for formulating the explanatory gap argument against materialist explanations for consciousness. This has been cited as a precursor to David Chalmers's formulation of the hard problem of consciousness. Levine is also the author of several popular and academic philosophy books and articles."
tagline: "American philosopher"
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birthDate: "1952-01-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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    title: "جوزيف ليفين"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump