Michael Levin

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Michael Levin (born 21 May 1943; Ph.D., Columbia University) is a professor of philosophy at City University of New York, who has published works on psionics, metaphysics, epistemology, race, homosexuality, animal rights, the philosophy of archaeology, the philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, and the philosophy of science.

He is critical of certain sects of feminism, and has advanced an argument that homosexuality is immoral and makes persons unhappy as it is a misuse of bodily parts. Levin also believes that genetics play an important part in the variation in cultures across the world. He advocates reliabilism as the correct theory of epistemology, and compatibilism as the correct theory of free will. Levin has also written for libertarian publications such as the Ludwig von Mises Institute's newsletter "The Free Market" and The Journal of Libertarian Studies.

Levin has garnered attention in recent years for advocating torture as a weapon in the War on Terror.

He was cited by the Southern Poverty Law Center's publication Intelligence Report (Summer 2006) as repeatedly addressing the American Renaissance, a white supremacist organization, at their bi-annual conferences. The same article claims that he has since stopped attending due to the organization's anti-Semitism, but not because of its explicit racism against other minority groups.<ref>http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1097</ref>