Justin Leiber
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| Full name | Justin Fritz Leiber |
| Born | July 10, 1938 Chicago |
| Main interests | Cognitive science; linguistics |
Justin Fritz Leiber (born July 8, 1938) is an American philosopher and science fiction writer. He is the son of science fiction author Fritz Leiber.[1] Previously a professor at the University of Houston, Leiber is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He has been a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford during the Trinity term on numerous occasions.[2]
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[edit] Life
Leiber was born in 1938 in Chicago Illinois[1][3] to writers Fritz Leiber and Jonquil Stephens Leiber.[3] In 1972, he received a Bachelor of Philosophy from Oxford University, and later a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago.[4]
[edit] Academic career
Leiber has had numerous academic appointments, including assistant professorships at Utica College of Syracuse University from 1963 to 1965, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York from 1966 to 1968, and Lehman College from 1968 to 1977.[5] Previously a professor at the University of Houston,[6] Leiber is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University.[7]
[edit] Works
Leiber's literary works have encompassed a number of subjects, including philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science.[3] He has published analysis of Alan Turing's Turing Test and the work of Noam Chomsky.[8][9] Some of both his fiction and non-fiction books have dealt with intelligence and consciousness.[10]
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[edit] Fiction
- Beyond Gravity. New York: Thomas Dougherty Associates, 1988.
- Beyond Humanity. New York: Thomas Dougherty Associates, 1987.
- Beyond Rejection. New York: Book Club Hardcover (Doubleday), 1980.
- The Sword and the Eye. New York: Thomas Dougherty Associates, 1985.
- The Sword and the Tower. New York: Thomas Dougherty Associates, 1986.
[edit] Non-fiction
- Paradoxes. London: Duckworth, 1993.
- An Invitation to Cognitive Science. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
- Can Animals and Machines Be Persons?. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Hackett Publishing,1986.
- Structuralism: Skepticism and Mind in the Psychological Sciences. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.
- Noam Chomsky: A Philosophic Overview, Boston: G. K. Hall, 1975.
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- Campos, Héctor; Fernando Martínez-Gil (1992). Current Studies in Spanish Linguistics. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 0878402349. http://books.google.com/books?id=JNi58Gqm8qYC&pg=PA21&dq=%22justin+leiber%22&lr=#v=onepage&q=%22justin%20leiber%22&f=false.
- Clute, John (1993). "Justin Leiber (1938 - )". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ousfg/misc/justin-leiber.html. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
- Csomay, Carol. "Conference gives new perspectives on the fantastic". Boca Raton News (South Florida Media Company). http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wOsPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZY0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5768,2255181&dq=justin-leiber. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
- "Department of Philosophy Faculty: Justin Leiber". Florida State University. 2007. http://www.fsu.edu/~philo/new%20site/staff/leiber.htm. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
- Eakin, Emily (3 February 2001). "THINK TANK; No Longer Alone: The Scientist Who Dared to Say Animals Think". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/03/arts/think-tank-no-longer-alone-the-scientist-who-dared-to-say-animals-think.html. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
- "Justin Leiber Papers". University of Houston. 2009. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uhsc/00053/hsc-00053.html#a0. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
- "Justin Leiber's VITA". Florida State University. http://mailer.fsu.edu/~jleiber/vita.htm. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
- Moor, James (2003). The Turing Test: The Elusive Standard of Artificial Intelligence. Studies in Cognitive Systems. 30. Berlin: Springer Science+Business Media. ISBN 1402012055. http://books.google.com/books?id=_LL0FzFSQQwC&pg=RA1-PA496&dq=%22justin+leiber%22&lr=#v=onepage&q=%22justin%20leiber%22&f=false. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
- Lischka, Konrad (4 September 2009). "Rollenspiel-Urahn Fritz Leiber: Schnaps, Frauen, Schwerter und Magie" (in German). Der Spiegel. http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/spielzeug/0,1518,645959,00.html. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
- Soble, Alan (1997). Sex, Love, and Friendship: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1977-1992. Value Inquiry Book Series. 45. Amsterdam: Rodopi Publishers. ISBN 9042002271. http://books.google.com/books?id=kE8kTQ4dm3UC&pg=PA600&dq=%22justin+leiber%22&lr=#v=onepage&q=%22justin%20leiber%22&f=false. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
