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Brian Leiter is a professor of law and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been a professor at Texas since 1995. Currently, Leiter holds the Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law. Notably, Leiter was the youngest chairholder in the history of the law school. He is also the Founder and Director of the Law & Philosophy Program at Texas. He has also been a visiting professor at Yale Law School, University of Chicago Law School, and University College London. He is editor of the journal Legal Theory and also editor of the Routledge Philosophers, a new series of introductions to major philosophers.

Leiter's "prolific" scholarly writings have been in two main areas: legal philosophy and Continental philosophy. Philosophical naturalism has been an abiding theme of his work in both contexts. In legal philosophy, he has offered an influential reinterpretation of the American Legal Realists as prescient philosophical naturalists and a general defense of what he calls "naturalized jurisprudence." In his writing on German philosophy, he is best-known for defending a reading of Nietzsche as a philosophical naturalist, most notably in his book Nietzsche on Morality (London: Routledge, 2002).

His other publications include several dozen articles and three edited collections: The Future for Philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), Nietzsche (Oxford Readings in Philosophy, 2001), and Objectivity in Law and Morals (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). His best-known articles include "Determinacy, Objectivity, and Authority" (University of Pennsylvania Law Review) (co-authored with Jules Coleman), "Rethinking Legal Realism: Toward a Naturalized Jurisprudence" (Texas Law Review), "Nietzsche and the Morality Critics" (Ethics), "Legal Realism and Legal Positivism Reconsidered" (Ethics), "Naturalized Epistemology and the Law of Evidence" (Virginia Law Review) (co-authored with Ronald Allen), and "Beyond the Hart/Dworkin Debate: The Methodology Problem in Jurisprudence" (American Journal of Jurisprudence).

Outside his academic specialties, Leiter is perhaps best known for his widely read and frequently controversial rankings of law schools and graduate programs in Philosophy, as well as his blog, which includes both philosophy and forthright attacks on proponents of Intelligent Design, the Iraq War, and other right-wing causes.

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-'''Brian Leiter''' (or "'''Brian [[Gauleiter]]'''" as his critics refer to him) is a professor of law and philosophy at the [[University of Texas]] at Austin. He has been a professor at Texas since 1995. Currently, Leiter holds the Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law. Notably, Leiter was the youngest chairholder in the history of the [[law school]]. He is also the Founder and Director of the Law & Philosophy Program at Texas.  He has also been a visiting professor at Yale Law School, University of Chicago Law School, and University College London.  He is editor of the journal ''Legal Theory'' and also editor of the ''Routledge Philosophers'', a new series of introductions to major philosophers.
+'''Brian Leiter''' is a professor of law and philosophy at the [[University of Texas]] at Austin. He has been a professor at Texas since 1995. Currently, Leiter holds the Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law. Notably, Leiter was the youngest chairholder in the history of the [[law school]]. He is also the Founder and Director of the Law & Philosophy Program at Texas.  He has also been a visiting professor at Yale Law School, University of Chicago Law School, and University College London.  He is editor of the journal ''Legal Theory'' and also editor of the ''Routledge Philosophers'', a new series of introductions to major philosophers.
-Leiter's "prolific" scholarly writings have been in two main areas: jurisprudence and Continental philosophy.  Philosophical naturalism has been an abiding theme of his work in both contexts. In legal philosophy, he has offered an influential reinterpretation of the American Legal Realists as prescient philosophical naturalists and a general defense of what he calls "naturalized jurisprudence."  In his writing on German philosophy, he is best-known for defending a reading of Nietzsche as a philosophical naturalist, most notably in his book ''Nietzsche on Morality'' (London:  Routledge, 2002).  However, he has gone on record to state (in the latest editions of his ''Philosophical Gourmet Report'') that the only philosophers qualified to read continental philosophers like Nietzsche are those trained in [[analytical philosophy]](!)*[http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/analytic.htm]  Even within [[analytical philosophy]], Leiter is hostile to alternative approaches: for instance, his dismissal of respected Oxford philosopher [[Peter Hacker]]'s*[http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/index.php?A=2&B=3&X=163] reading of [[Wittgenstein]] -- simply on the grounds that the latter did not conform to the readings of [[Crispin Wright]], [[Paul Boghossian]], [[Colin McGinn]], or [[Saul Kripke]].*[http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/06/the_challenge_o.html]
+Leiter's "prolific" scholarly writings have been in two main areas: legal philosophy and Continental philosophy.  Philosophical naturalism has been an abiding theme of his work in both contexts. In legal philosophy, he has offered an influential reinterpretation of the American Legal Realists as prescient philosophical naturalists and a general defense of what he calls "naturalized jurisprudence."  In his writing on German philosophy, he is best-known for defending a reading of Nietzsche as a philosophical naturalist, most notably in his book ''Nietzsche on Morality'' (London:  Routledge, 2002).
 His other publications include several dozen articles and three edited collections:  ''The Future for Philosophy'' (Oxford:  Clarendon Press, 2004), ''Nietzsche'' (Oxford Readings in Philosophy, 2001), and ''Objectivity in Law and Morals'' (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2001).  His best-known articles include "Determinacy, Objectivity, and Authority" (''University of Pennsylvania Law Review'') (co-authored with Jules Coleman), "Rethinking Legal Realism:  Toward a Naturalized Jurisprudence" (''Texas Law Review''), "Nietzsche and the Morality Critics" (''Ethics''), "Legal Realism and Legal Positivism Reconsidered" (''Ethics''), "Naturalized Epistemology and the Law of Evidence" (''Virginia Law Review'') (co-authored with Ronald Allen), and "Beyond the Hart/Dworkin Debate:  The Methodology Problem in Jurisprudence" (''American Journal of Jurisprudence'').
-Outside his academic specialties, Leiter is perhaps best known for his widely read and frequently controversial rankings of [[law school]]s and graduate programs in [[Philosophy]].  Leiter is also a controversial figure in the [[blogosphere]] because of his critical attacks on proponents of Intelligent Design, the Iraq War, and other right-wing causes.  Yet his own attacks on academic diversity ''within'' the discipline of philosophy (and even within [[analytical philosophy]]) would seem to belie his supposed "outrage" at the "[[Texas]] [[Taliban]]" (i.e., [[Christian fundamentalist]]) attacks on "academic freedom."  However, his blogging style has been dubbed "the no bullshit" approach by his acolytes.
+Outside his academic specialties, Leiter is perhaps best known for his widely read and frequently controversial rankings of [[law school]]s and graduate programs in [[Philosophy]], as well as his blog, which includes both philosophy and forthright attacks on proponents of Intelligent Design, the Iraq War, and other right-wing causes.
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