Professor of philosophy at the University of Houston, University Park campus. Son of Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr., the noted science fiction author.
1. EDUCATION:
· University of Oxford B. Phil. (1972)
· University of Chicago BA, MA, PhD (1967)
2. REGULAR APPOINTMENTS:
· Professor, University of Houston, 1978-
· 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; Ballatine 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 Biological Tradition of D'Arcy Thompson and Alan Turing, in Noam Chomsky and
Nirmalangshu Mukherji, ed.s, ________. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
· Turing’s Golden, Invited Address, The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New
Orleans, April, 2004. Forthcoming.
· 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, 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. 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.
