Paul Livingston

Professor
Graduate Director

Photo: Paul Livingston

Philosophy Club Advisor

Email: pmliving@unm.edu
Hours: Wednesdays 1:00-3:00pm

  • A.B. (Harvard University, 1997)
  • M. Phil. (University of Cambridge, 1998)
  • Ph.D. (UC, Irvine, 2002)

Research Interests:

I work on the philosophy of language and logic, phenomenology, and political philosophy. My recent work concerns the logics of unity and sense across diverse traditions, including Platonism, psychoanalysis, analytic philosophy, and Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy.

Recent Publications:

Idealism, Relativism, and Realism: New Essays on Objectivity Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide (anthology co-edited with Dominik Finkelde) (De Gruyter, 2020)

The Logic of Being: Realism, Truth, and Time (Northwestern, 2017)

 

“Undecidable Sense and the Logics of Ineffectivity” Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 22:1 (spring 2026).

 

“Reflexivity and Unity in Plotinus’ Platonism and Śāntarakṣita’s Madhyamaka” In Emile Alexandrov and Alexander James O’Neill, eds., Buddhism and Neoplatonism, (Chisokudō, 2025).

 

“Wittgenstein and Nāgārjuna on the Principle of Sufficient Reason and the Emptiness of Form” Southern Journal of Philosophy 63:S1 (Summer 2025).

 

“Anomalous Monism and the Univocity of Being: Davidson, Deleuze, Spinoza” In James Bahoh, Marta Cassina, and Sergio Genovesi, ed., 21st Century Philosophy of Events: Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide (Edinburgh U. Press, 2025).

 

“Real Ethics and the ‘Ethics of the Real’ After Lacan and Wittgenstein” In Alireza Taheri, Chris Vanderwees and Reza Naderi, ed., Philosophy after Lacan: Politics, Science, and Art, (Routledge, 2024).

 

“Unity and Predication in Plato’s Parmenides and Nāgārjuna’s Mūlamadhyamakakārikā” In Amber D. Carpenter and Pierre-Julien Harter, eds., Crossing the Stream, Leaving the Cave: Buddhist-Platonist Dialogues (Oxford U. Press, 2024).

 

“ ‘There is no such thing as the subject that thinks:’ Wittgenstein and Lacan on truth and the subject” In Adrian Johnston, Boštjan Nedoh, and Alenka Zupančič, ed., Objective Fictions: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism (Edinburgh U. Press, 2021).

 

“Formal-Syntactical Thinking and the Structure of the World” In Panayiota Vassilopoulou and Daniel Whistler, ed., Thought: A Philosophical History (Routledge, 2021)

 

“Sense, Realism, and Ontological Difference” In Dominik Finkelde and Paul M. Livingston, ed., Idealism, Relativism, and Realism: New Essays on Objectivity Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide (De Gruyter, 2020)

Other Information:

Recent Teaching, Research and Editing

Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Science; Greek Philosophy; Wittgenstein; Deleuze; Theories of Truth; History of Analytic Philosophy; History and Philosophy of Mathematics; Buddhist Philosophy

Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Freiburg University, Germany, January-August, 2007; June-August, 2009; October 2013-January 2014

Continental Philosophy Editor, philpapers.org

Twentieth Century Philosophy Editor, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy