Justin Fritz Leiber

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Justin Fritz Leiber (7 August 1938 - )

Leiber, an American philosopher, was born in Chicago, the son of Jonquil Stephens Leiber, a writer, and Fritz Leiber, a science fiction writer.

Leiber was educated at the University of Chicago, receiving a BA, MA, PhD (1967) and Oxford University B. Phil. (1972).

A long-time professor at the University of Houston, Leiber presently teaches Philosophy of Linguistics and Language, Cognitive Science, and Evolutionary Psychology in the Philosophy Department at Florida State University.

According to his website,

My nonfiction books include Noam Chomsky: A Philosophic Overview; Structuralism, An Invitation to Cognitive Science, and Paradoxes.

My novels include the trilogy Beyond Rejection, Beyond Humanity, and Beyond Gravity.

My 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).

A short introduction to my work is "Re(ad) Me; Re(ad) Myself," reproduced by permission of the original publisher, Philosophy and Literature.

Leiber is on the board of directors of the Bertrand Russell Society and is a consulting editor for the Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior.