Justin Leiber, Philosophy Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee,
FL 32306.
Phone: 850-599-9447. 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.
Some
of My Recent Philosophical Work:
Additional materials for Introduction
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
· The real cougar, Shasta IV, my one-time companion
· Feeding monkey grass to my cougar friend
Reproductions courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art
You can reach me by e-mail at: jleiber@fsu.edu
