Justin Leiber's Home Page 


Justin Leiber, Philosophy Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306.
Phone: 850-644-0219. Fax: 850-644-3821.


 My nonfiction books include Noam Chomsky: A Philosophic Overview, Structuralism, An Invitation to Cognitive Science, and Paradoxes; novels include the trilogy Beyond Rejection, Beyond Humanity, and Beyond Gravity. Recent papers include "Coming of Age in Olduvai and the Zaire rain forest," Behavioral and Brain Sciences(1994), "On Turing's Turing Test and Why the Matter Matters," Synthese (1995), "Helen Keller as Cognitive Scientist" Philosophical Psychology (1996), "On What Sort of Speech Act Investigations Is and Why It Matters," Philosophical Forum (1997), "Turing and the Fragility and Insubstantiality of Evolutionary Explanations," Philosophical Psychology (2000), and “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 (2002), “Turing’s Golden,” Philosophical Psychology (2006), “Instinctive Incest Avoidance: A Paradigm Case for Evolutionary Psychology Evaporates,” Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior (2006), “The Wiles of Evolutionary Psychology and the Indeterminacy of Selection,” Philosophical Forum (2008). Possibly the best short introduction to my work as a whole is "Re(ad) Me; Re(ad) Myself," reproduced by permission of the original publisher, Philosophy and Literature

 

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Barbara in Chautauqua; KC Leiber  Grandsons Joseph & Eastman in Winnetka; Daughter Arlynn, lawyer and romance novelist (Visit the French Arlynn & Justin page; EARTHRIS.JPG

A Philosophical Glossary for Students
My Short Curriculum Vitae

Confessions of a Philosophy Addict

 

Some of My Recent Philosophical Work:

 

Course materials for Philosophy 2010, Introduction to Philosophy, Fall, 2009:

·         P2010 Introduction to Philosophy Syllabus

·         IntroPhil2ndExam

·         IntroPhil3rdSampleQuestions.htm

·         P2010 Confessions of a Philosophy Addict

·         P2010: Alan Turing: the Maker of Our Age (Delphian seminar text)

·         IntroPhilPreRepublic

·         IntroPhil4Can Animals and Machines Be Persons.htm

·         Writing Philosophical Essays

Course materials for Philosophy 3220, Philosophy of Language, Fall, 2009:

 

 

Additional materials for Introduction to Philosophy

Course materials for Philosophy 2630, Spring, 2008:

 


Links of Passing Philosophical Interest

All about philosophy (students: note stuff on Writing Philosophical Essays) 

American Philosophical Association

FSU Philosophy Department
UH Philosophy Department
Eliza - Weizenbaum's Psychoanalysis Program
Julia - MIT stuff about simulating agency
Giant knowledge base AI effort

 

Felines

·  The real cougar, Shasta IV, my one-time companion

·  Feeding monkey grass to my cougar friend

·  Why Cats Paint

Reproductions courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

You can reach me by e-mail at: jleiber@fsu.edu