boscoreale cubiculum
This
decorated bedroom was buried and preserved by Vesuvius' eruption of AD 79.
Reproduction
courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Justin Leiber's
VITA
You can
e-mail me at: jleiber@fsu.edu
1. EDUCATION:
· University
of Oxford B. Phil. (1972)
· University
of Chicago BA, MA, PhD
(1967)
2. REGULAR
APPOINTMENTS:
·
Professor, Florida State
University, 2006-
· Professor, University of Houston,
1978-2006
· Assistant Professor, City University of New York, Lehman College, 1968-77.
· Assistant Professor, State University
of New York College
- Buffalo,
1966-68.
· Assistant Professor, Utica
College of Syracuse University, 1963-65.
· Instructor, Memphis State University,
1962-63.
3. VISITING
APPOINTMENTS:
· Visiting Fellow (Trinity Terms), Linacre College,
Oxford University, 1981, 1983, 1984; Michaelmas Term, 1986.
· Visiting Scientist, Kyoto University
Primate Installation, Inuyama, Japan
(Summer, 1980).
· Visiting Scientist, Linguistics and
Philosophy, MIT, 1976-78.
· Philosophy Tutor, St. Catherines
College, Oxford University, 1971-72.
· Honorary Visitor, Kings College,
University of London, 1970-71
4. BOOKS
(authored):
· Paradoxes, London: Duckworth, 1993.
· An Invitation to Cognitive
Science, Oxford:
Blackwell, 1991. Tokyo, Japan: Shin-Yo
Sha, 1994 (Japanese translation).
· Beyond Gravity, New York: Thomas
Dougherty Associates, 1988.
· Beyond Humanity, New York: Thomas
Dougherty Associates, 1987. Milan,
Italy: Arnoldo Mondadori Editione, 1992 (Italian translation).
· Can Animals and Machines Be
Persons?, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Hackett
Publishing,1986. This dialogue appears, along with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,
Samuel
Butler's Erewhon, and the Scott Ridley movie Bladerunner, in the discussion series segment The Question
of Manmade Man of The Body in Question,
developed by the YMCA of the USA's National Writer's Voice
Project in partnership with the American Library Association (in consultation
with The
Humanities Circle
and supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities)
· Beyond Rejection, New York: Book Club
Hardcover (Doubleday), 1980; Ballantine Paperback
(Random House), 1980. Bergisch Gladbach, Germany: Bastei
Verlag Gustav H. Lubbe, 1984
(German trans.). Paris,
France: Societe des Nouvelles Editions Opta, 1986 (French trans.). The
first five chapters of Beyond
Rejection appear in D. Hofstadter & D. Dennett, The
Mind's I: Basic Books, New York:
1981; a similar selection also appears in Lee Bowie, et al., Twenty
Questions: An
Introduction to Philosophy, San
Diego, CA: Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, 1988; a slightly different selection also appears in V. Hardcastle,
Thought Fugues: Introduction to
Knowledge and Reality, Dubuque,
Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing,
1996.
· Structuralism:
Skepticism and Mind in the Psychological Sciences, Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.
· Noam Chomsky: A Philosophic Overview, Boston: G. K. Hall, 1975.
New York: St.
Martins Press (paperback), 1975. (Three chapters from this book appear in
C. Otero, ed.,
Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments Vol. II,
London: Routledge, 1994, pp. 259-290. Another chapter appears,
translated into Polish, in
Katarzyna Rosner, ed., Noama Chomsky'ego Proba Rewolucji Naukowej, the second book in a series titled Generatywny Program Badan Nad Ludzkim
Umyslem,
Warsaw: IFiS, pp. 223-234.)
5. BOOKS (introduced and edited)
· Man a Machine and Man a
Plant, Julien de La Mettrie,
Cambridge, MA: Hackett, 1994.
· Around the World in Eighty
Days, New York:
Aerie Books, St. Martins, 1990.
· O Henry's Stories, New York: Aerie Books,
St. Martins, 1988.
· The Mystery of the Japanese
Clock, Los Angeles,
Montgolfier Press, 1982.
· The Worlds of Fritz Leiber,
Boston: G. K.
Hall, 1979.
6. ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
The Wiles of Evolutionary Psychology and the Indeterminacy of
Selection. Philosophical Forum,
2008, 53-72.
Noam Chomsky. Science Fiction. Entries in INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 2nd
Edition, Macmillan, 2008.
Instinctive Incest Avoidance: A Paradigm Case
for Evolutionary Psychology Evaporates. Journal
For The Theory of Social Behavior, 36:4, 369-388,
2006.
Fritz,
Time Travel & All, in He Sought
Adventure: A Critical Study of Fritz Leiber. Jefferson NC:
McFarland, 2006.
Turing’s
Golden, Philosophical Psychology,
2006. Invited Address, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, April
2004
C. S.
Lewis vrs Mrs. Coulter, in Navigating the Golden Compass: Religion, Science and Daemonology in
Philip Pullman’s
His Dark Materials,
NY: BenBella
Books, August 2005
A Reply
to Christopher Pincock, Betrand Russell Quarterly, August 2005
Dickins, Cosmides, Rationality, Modularity and the Wason Selection Task. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 2005.
Russell
and Wittgenstein: A Study in Civility and Arrogance, Bertrand Russell
Quarterly, 23, 2004.
Philosophy of Language. Alan Turing. Entries in ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF LINGUISTICS, Routledge, 2004.
Wittgenstein,
Ludwig, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES, Macmillan Reference Ltd., 2002.
A Philosophical Education, Linacre
Magazine, No. 5, April 2002.
Philosophy, Engineering, Biology, and
History: A Vindication of Turing's Views
About the Distinction Between the Cognitive and Physical Sciences,
Journal of Theoretical
and Artificial Intelligence. 14, 29-37, 2002
Turing and the Fragility and
Insubstantiality of Evolutionary Explanations: A Puzzle About
the Unity of Alan Turing's Work with some Larger
Implications, Philosophical
Psychology, XIII. 83-94, 2001. A shorter
version appeared in the Chomsky Web Festscrift and
was presented to the Society for
Philosophy and Psychology (Stanford University,
June 19-22, 1999)
On
Getting Turing Wrong Perversely, Tekhnema:
Journal of Philosophy and Technology, VI, 2000.
Language Without Linguistics, or Badly Reinventing Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy, Synthese, 1999.
Faculty
Before Folk: Commentary on Atran's
"Folk Biology and the Anthropology of Science: Cognitive Universals and
Cultural Particulars, Behavioral
and Brain Sciences,
XXI, 579-580, 1998.
On
What Sort of Speech Act Wittgenstein’s Investigations Is and Why It Matters, The Philosophical Forum,
XXVIII, no. 3, 1997.
Psychology
without Brains: Commentary on Rachlin's "Self
Control: Beyond Commitment," Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
XX, 366-367, 1997.
Nature's
Experiments, Society's Closures, The Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, XXVII, 325-343, 1997.
Commentary on Robert M. Farr, "The
Significance of the Skin as a Natural Boundary in the Sub-Division
of Psychology, ibidem, 363-367. Commentary on
Dr. Douglas Porpora, "The
Caterpillar's
Question: Contesting Anti-Humanism's Questions, ibidem,
369-372.
Art, Pornography, and the Evolution of Consciousness, in Alan Soble, ed., Sex, Love, and Friendship.
Amsterdam/Atlanta: Editions Rodopi, 1997. A slightly
different
version delivered to the Society for the Philosophy of Sex
and Love, American Philosophical Association, 1993.
Helen Keller as
Cognitive Scientist, Philosophical Psychology, 1996.
On Turing's Turing Test and Why the Matter Matters, Synthese, 1995.
Coming
of Age in Olduvai and the Zaire
rain forrest: Commentary on
Wilkins and Wakefield,
"Brain evolution and neurological preconditions," Behavioral and
Brain
Sciences, 1994.
Conscience
and Commissurotomy: Commentary on Pucetti
on Split
Brains, Psycholoquy, 1993.
What's
Biological About the Continuity?, Behavioral and
Brain Sciences, 1993, 654-55.
B.
Foorman and _______, The
Eternal Context, Linguistics and Education, 1993, 165-174.
The
Light Bulb and the Turing-Tested Machine, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 1992, 25-39. A shorter version read to the
American Philosophical Association, 1991.
Riding
the Void Captain's Torch Through Essex House, New York Review of Science Fiction,
1990, 1, 8-10. Read to the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts,
1990.
Shannon on the Turing Test, Journal for the Theory of
Social Behaviour, 1989, 257-59.
"Cartesian"
Linguistics?, in The Chomskyan
Turn: Generative Linguistics, Mathematics, Philosophy and Psychology
International Workshop, Tel Aviv, April 11-14, 1988.
Philosophia, 1988, 309-46. Subsequently reprinted,
with minor corrections, in The Chomskyan Turn,
Oxford:
Blackwell, 1991.
Re(ad) Me; Re(ad) Myself, Philosophy and Literature,
1988, 134-139.
Artisan
Heroique, Phenix, 1987,
48-58. English translation appeared in Riverside Quarterly, 1992.
Mises en Scene Philosophiques, Phenix,
1987, 48-61. English translation appeared in Riverside Quarterly,
1992.
Privatization:
A Game Theoretic Analysis, in B. J. Carroll et al., Private Means, Public
Ends, New York:
Praeger, 1987, 135-145.
Le
temps present future, in G. Hottois, S. F.:
Science Fiction et Fiction Speculative, Bruxelles: Editions de l'Universite
de Bruxelles, 1985, 37-47. A
revised English
version appeared as
The Present Future Tense, Philosophy and Literature, 1985.
The
Strange Creature, in R. Harre and V. Reynolds, The
Meaning of Primate Signals, Cambridge University Press, 1984, 77-88.
Comment on Cheney's Paper,
ibidem 167-68.
B.
Foorman, _________, D. Fernie,
Mountains and Molehills: Egocentricism in Recent
Research, Oxford
Educational Review, 1984, 261-170.
The
Vindication of the Language Organ, New Ideas in Psychology, 1983,
157-163. Ape signing and Linguistic Realism: a Reply to Fodor, ibidem 167-68.
Why
It Is Unsurprising That Ape "Language-Training" Enhances
"Completing Incomplete (External) Representations of Action," Behavioral
and Brain Sciences, 1983, 151.
Meaning,
Subpersonal Psychology, Radical Translation,
Indeterminacy of Translation, in Dictionary of Psychology, Oxford: Blackwell, 1983
(four entries for this dictionary).
Fritz
Leiber and Eyes, in N. Smith, Philosophers Look at Science Fiction, Chicago: Nelson-Hall,
1982, 152-76. An expansion and revision of an article in Starship: The
Magazine About Science Fiction, 1979, 9-18.
Language
and Its Analogues: Functional and Homological Characterizations in Cognitive
Psychology, Language and Communication, 1982, 219-225.
Analogical
and Homological Characterizations of Language, in P. Secord,
Explaining Human Behavior: Consciousness, Human Action and Social Structure,
Beverly Hills
&
London: Sage, 1982,
115-126 (this paper was read to the annual meetings of the Society for
Philosophy and Psychology, 1981).
Language
and Models of the Mind, in K. Diller, Individual
Differences & Universals in Language Learning Aptitude, Rowley,
Massachusetts & London: Newbury House,
1981, 201-18.
Insulting,
Philosophia, 1978, 549-71.
Philosophical
Aspects of Recent Work in Linguistics, Philosophical Forum, 1976, 343-63
(read to the annual meetings of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology,
1976).
How
J. L. Austin Does Things With Words, Philosophy and Literature, 1976,
54-65.
Paradigmatic
Immorality, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1975, 689-95.
Linguistic
Analysis and Existentialism, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
1971, 47-56.
Meaning and Liking Again, Analysis, 1969, 40-42.
In Respect of Liking, Analysis,
1968, 183-88.
Aesthetic Emotions, Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1968,
215-23.
The
Many-Pun Argument, Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1963, 36-40.
7. EDITORSHIPS, ETC.
· Dialogue Series Editor, Hackett
Publishing, 1990-
· Board of Directors, Bertrand Russell
Society, 1985-
· Consulting Editor, The Journal for the
Theory of Social Behavior, 1981-,
· Referee, Philosophical Forum,
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Philosophical Psychology, Synthese,
Minds and Machines, Hackett Publishing, Oxford University
Press, Blackwell,
State University of New
York Press, Duckworth, Twayne
Press, MIT Press.
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