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decorated bedroom was buried and preserved by Vesuvius' eruption of AD 79.
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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
Time For the Terminator: Philosophical Themes
of the Resistance, in R. Brown & K. Decker, eds., Terminator and Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009, 122-132.
The First Social Psychologist. Journal For The Theory of Social Behavior.
2008, 38:4, 489-494.
The
Wiles of Evolutionary Psychology and the Indeterminacy of Selection. Philosophical Forum, 2008, 39:1, 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, 2006, 36:4, 369-388.
Fritz, Time Travel & All, in He Sought Adventure: A Critical Study of
Fritz Leiber. Jefferson
NC: McFarland, 2006.
Turing’s Golden, Philosophical Psychology, 19:4,
13-46, 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, 35:3,
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, 10-16, 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. 14:1, 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, 120:2, 193-211, 1999.
The Evolution of Communication, Philosophical Psychology, 12:3, 368-371.
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, 232-267, 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, 9:4, 419-440, 1996.
On
Turing's Turing Test and Why the Matter Matters, Synthese,
104:1, 59-69, 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,
XVIII, 196-197, 1994.
Conscience
and Commissurotomy: Commentary on Pucetti
on Split
Brains, Psycholoquy, 1993.
What's
Biological About the Continuity?, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, XVI,
654-55 1993.
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, 19:2,
25-39, 1992. 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, 19:2, 257-59, 1989.
"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, 13:1, 134-139, 1988.
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, 9:2, 203-211, 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, VI, 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, 219-225, 1982.
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. Anthologized in M. Mcbride, ed., Sartre’s French Contemporaries and
Enduring Influences. Routledge,
1996.
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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