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Isaac Levi is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Columbia University. Levi came onto the philosophic scene with his groundbreaking first book, Gambling with Truth. In the text Levi offers a decision theoretic reconstruction of epistemology with a close-eye towards the classical pragmatist philosophers like William James and Charles Sanders Peirce.

Levi is one of several doctoral students of Ernest Nagel who were influential in American post-war philosophy; others were Morton White, Patrick Suppes, Henry Kyburg, and Sidney Morgenbesser.

Major publications

• Gambling with Truth, Knopf (1967), reissued in paper in 1973 by MIT Press.
• The Enterprise of Knowledge: An Essay on Knowledge, Credal Probability and Chance, MIT (1980). Paperback (1983).
• Decisions and Revisions, Cambridge University Press (1984).
• Hard Choices: Decision Making under Unresolved Conflict, Cambridge University Press (1986). Paperback (1990).
• The Fixation of Belief and Its Undoing: Changing Beliefs Through Inquiry, Cambridge University Press (1991).
• For the Sake of the Argument: Ramsey Test Conditionals, Inductive Inference and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Cambridge University Press (1996).
• The Covenant of Reason: Rationality and the Commitments of Thought, Cambridge University Press (1997).

See also

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers