Brian Leiter

I mostly knew Føllesdal's earlier work on modal and deontic logic (including a now-classic introduction to SDL with Hilpinen), and I was less acquainted with his work on Husserl (for which he is perhaps most famous). A top notch philosopher.

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Morality is nothing but a story we tell ourselves <p><em>Moral identity is often treated as a hidden core of inner values, but philosopher <strong><span class="hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline"><span class="wh...

Discovered this via @brianleiter.bsky.social and boy is it good. A real breath of fresh air in a discipline filled with the most ridiculous and stipulative forms of moral philosophy.

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Ali Larijani, Kant scholar? Jim Holt and Moti Gorin have both pointed out to me that the Wikipedia page for Ali Larijani (one of the most powerful political figures in Iran, not yet killed) reports that he has a Ph.D. in &#82…

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In Memoriam: Dagfinn Føllesdal (1932-2026) Professor Føllesdal, who was emeritus at both Stanford University (where he spent most of his career) and the University of Oslo (in his native Norway), was best-known for his work in philosophy of…

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In Memoriam: Dagfinn Føllesdal (1932-2026) Professor Føllesdal, who was emeritus at both Stanford University (where he spent most of his career) and the University of Oslo (in his native Norway), was best-known for his work in philosophy of…

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So in the first two months of 2026, Donald Trump… …has kidnapped the sovereign of one country and murdered the sovereign of another country. It doesn’t matter that these sovereigns were bad people. Our sovereign is a bad person too, bu…

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In Memoriam: David C. Hoy (1944-2026) Professor Hoy, who was emeritus at the University of California at Santa Cruz, was a leading expert on 20th-century Continental philosophy, including hermeneutics, critical theory, and post-structu…

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In Memoriam: David C. Hoy (1944-2026) Professor Hoy, who was emeritus at the University of California at Santa Cruz, was a leading expert on 20th-century Continental philosophy, including hermeneutics, critical theory, and post-structu…

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Disgraceful administrative misconduct at Virginia State University They unlawfully fired tenured faculty, treated them like garbage, and couldn’t even follow their own procedures. The only people who should be fired at the administrators responsible for this…

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In Memoriam: Hide Ishiguro (1931-2026) Professor Ishiguro, who was emerita at Kyoto University in her native Japan, also taught for many years at University College London and Columbia University, before returning to Japan. She was best…

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Today in Trump’s violations of international law and human rights What they’re doing to Cuba and its people probably qualifies.

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More on recent “grounding” formulations of legal positivism that exclude Hans Kelsen Scott Shapiro did the most to popularize a misleading way of describing legal positivism. (The mistake derives from Greenberg and Gideon Rosen, but Shapiro’s 2011 book helped make it common a…

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In Memoriam: Malcolm Budd (1941-2026) Professor Budd, who was the emeritus Grote Professor at University College London, was best-known for his work in aesthetics, but had wide-ranging philosophical interests, ranging from philosophy o…

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In Memoriam: Malcolm Budd (1941-2026) Professor Budd, who was the emeritus Grote Professor at University College London, was best-known for his work in aesthetics, but had wide-ranging philosophical interests, ranging from philosophy o…

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“From a Realist Point of View” publishes officially on March 10 Here. I know the price is extravagant (it’s a big book, over 460 pages–three totally new chapters, plus revisions to all the others, some fairly substantial), but the e-book is at least…

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More on recent “grounding” formulations of legal positivism that exclude Hans Kelsen Scott Shapiro did the most to popularize a misleading way of describing legal positivism. (The mistake derives from Greenberg and Gideon Rosen, but Shapiro’s 2011 book helped make it common a…

leiterreports.com/2026/02/21/m...

“From a Realist Point of View” publishes officially on March 10 Here. I know the price is extravagant (it’s a big book, over 460 pages–three totally new chapters, plus revisions to all the others, some fairly substantial), but the e-book is at least…

leiterreports.com/2026/02/19/f...

Today in Trump’s violations of international law and human rights What they’re doing to Cuba and its people probably qualifies.

leiterreports.com/2026/02/20/t...

In Memoriam: Hide Ishiguro (1931-2026) Professor Ishiguro, who was emerita at Kyoto University in her native Japan, also taught for many years at University College London and Columbia University, before returning to Japan. She was best…

leiterreports.com/2026/02/20/i...

Most cited Anglophone philosophical books on Marx since WWII (according to Google Scholar) (CORRECTED) I focus on English-language books mainly by philosophers, or that are obviously philosophically-minded. Totals are rounded to the nearest 100, and only books with at least 500 citations are listed.…

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Most cited Anglophone philosophical books on Marx since WWII (according to Google Scholar) (CORRECTED) I focus on English-language books mainly by philosophers, or that are obviously philosophically-minded. Totals are rounded to the nearest 100, and only books with at least 500 citations are listed.…

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It's not a contribution to Anglophone analytic political philosophy. Other Cohen work was ont hat list, as I recall.

Most cited Anglophone philosophical books on Marx since WWII (according to Google Scholar) I focus on English-language books mainly by philosophers, or that are obviously philosophically-minded. Totals are rounded to the nearest 100, and only books with at least 500 citations are listed.…

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Jonathan Lear’s final interview Here. He does an especially nice job explaining the connection between psychoanalysis and his interest in Greek philosophy. But the whole thing is worth reading.

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Block on Pollan’s popular book on consciousness “[A] wonderful phenomenological travelog, but…less reliable as a guide to the science of consciousness.”

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Jonathan Lear’s final interview Here. He does an especially nice job explaining the connection between psychoanalysis and his interest in Greek philosophy. But the whole thing is worth reading.

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AI developer warns the AI jobs apocalypse is closer than we realize Here; an excerpt: [O]n February 5th, two major AI labs released new models on the same day: GPT-5.3 Codex from OpenAI, and Opus 4.6 from Anthropic (the makers of Claude, one of the main competitors…

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AI developer warns the AI jobs apocalypse is closer than we realize Here; an excerpt: [O]n February 5th, two major AI labs released new models on the same day: GPT-5.3 Codex from OpenAI, and Opus 4.6 from Anthropic (the makers of Claude, one of the main competitors…

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That seems apt for this woman:

Most cited Anglophone *articles* in philosophy of mind since WWII (according to Google Scholar) Following up on this list of books, here is an initial list of Anglophone articles in philosophy of mind. Comments are open, so please feel free to add others with at least 2,500 citations (and ple…

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