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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Brian Leiter is an American philosopher and legal scholar who is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and founder and Director of Chicago's Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values. A review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews described Leiter as "one of the most influential legal philosophers of our time", while a review in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies described Leiter's book Nietzsche on Morality as "arguably the most important book on Nietzsche's philosophy in the past twenty years."
Brian Leiter's Published Works
Published Works
- Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1983) (308)
- Nietzsche on Morality (2014) (184)
- Why Tolerate Religion? (2012) (128)
- American Legal Realism (2002) (127)
- Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Essays on American Legal Realism and Naturalism in Legal Philosophy (2007) (100)
- Rethinking Legal Realism: Toward a Naturalized Jurisprudence (1997) (93)
- The future for philosophy (2004) (88)
- Nietzsche’s Theory of the Will (2007) (88)
- Beyond the Hart/Dworkin Debate: The Methodology Problem in Jurisprudence (2003) (83)
- The Demarcation Problem in Jurisprudence: A New Case for Skepticism (2011) (74)
- LEGAL FORMALISM AND LEGAL REALISM: WHAT IS THE ISSUE? (2010) (69)
- Naturalized Epistemology and the Law of Evidence (2001) (68)
- Nietzsche and Morality (2007) (67)
- Nietzsche and the Morality Critics (1997) (61)
- Legal Realism and Legal Positivism Reconsidered* (2001) (61)
- The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy (2007) (60)
- Nietzsche's Metaethics: Against the Privilege Readings (2000) (57)
- Nietzsche Against the Philosophical Canon (2013) (57)
- Perspectivism in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals (1994) (54)
- The Paradox of Fatalism and Self-Creation in Nietzsche (1998) (53)
- Preface to the Paperback Edition of Why Tolerate Religion (2014) (53)
- Explaining Theoretical Disagreement (2007) (50)
- Determinacy, Objectivity and Authority (1993) (46)
- Moral Facts and Best Explanations* (2001) (42)
- The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Recovering Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud (2005) (42)
- Nietzsche's Naturalism Reconsidered (2009) (39)
- The Case for Nietzschean Moral Psychology (2006) (37)
- Philosophy of Law (2015) (34)
- Oxford studies in philosophy of law (2011) (34)
- The Truth Is Terrible (2018) (31)
- Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy. (2004) (31)
- Positivism, Formalism, Realism (1999) (30)
- Moral Skepticism and Moral Disagreement in Nietzsche (2013) (28)
- Legal Indeterminacy (1995) (28)
- Legal Indeterminacy (1995) (28)
- Naturalism in Legal Philosophy (2002) (26)
- Routledge philosophy guidebook to Nietzsche on morality (2002) (26)
- Who is the 'Sovereign Individual'? Nietzsche on Freedom (2009) (24)
- Why Legal Positivism (Again) (2013) (24)
- Nietzsche’s Naturalism and Nineteenth-Century Biology (2017) (24)
- The Boundaries of the Moral (and Legal) Community (2012) (23)
- Objectivity in Law and Morals (2007) (21)
- The Case Against Free Speech (2016) (20)
- Heidegger and the Theory of Adjudication (1996) (20)
- Foundations of Religious Liberty: Toleration or Respect? (2009) (20)
- Legal Realisms, Old and New (2013) (19)
- The Methodology of Legal Philosophy (2013) (18)
- Moral Psychology with Nietzsche (2019) (17)
- Law and Objectivity (2004) (17)
- In Praise of Realism (and Against 'Nonsense' Jurisprudence) (2010) (17)
- Constitutional Law, Moral Judgment, and the Supreme Court as Super-Legislature (2015) (17)
- Objective Values: Does Metaethics Rest on a Mistake? (2000) (17)
- Why Legal Positivism (2009) (17)
- Nietzsche and Aestheticism (1992) (17)
- MORALITIES ARE A SIGN-LANGUAGE OF THE AFFECTS* (2013) (17)
- Realism, Hard Positivism, and Conceptual Analysis (1998) (16)
- Friedrich Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the prejudices of morality (1982) (16)
- Reply to Five Critics of Why Tolerate Religion? (2014) (16)
- The Epistemic Status of the Human Sciences: Critical Reflections on Foucault (2008) (16)
- Naturalism and Naturalized Jurisprudence (1998) (16)
- Legal Interpretation, Objectivity, and Morality (2000) (16)
- Cleaning Cyber-Cesspools: Google and Free Speech (2010) (16)
- Normativity For Naturalists (2015) (15)
- Knowledge and Affect: Perspectivism Revisited (2017) (15)
- Naturalized Jurisprudence and American Legal Realism Revisited (2011) (15)
- Morality in the pejorative sense: On the logic of Nietzsche's critique of morality (1995) (14)
- Why Marxism Still Does Not Need Normative Theory (2015) (14)
- Why Evolutionary Biology Is (So Far) Irrelevant To Legal Regulation (2009) (14)
- The Epistemology of Admissibility: Why Even Good Philosophy of Science Would Not Make for Good Philosophy of Evidence (1997) (14)
- The End of Empire: Dworkin and Jurisprudence in the 21st Century (2004) (13)
- Marx, Law, Ideology, Legal Positivism (2015) (13)
- Objectivity, Morality and Adjudication (2000) (13)
- The Paradoxes of Public Philosophy (2014) (13)
- Legal Realism and Legal Doctrine (2015) (12)
- Measuring the Academic Distinction of Law Faculties (2000) (12)
- Rorty and the Philosophical Tradition: A Comment on Professor Szubka (2010) (11)
- Waldron on the Regulation of Hate Speech (2012) (10)
- Intellectual Voyeurism in Legal Scholarship (1992) (10)
- Chapter 14. Legal Positivism (2010) (10)
- Is There an 'American' Jurisprudence? (1997) (9)
- Legal Realism, Hard Positivism, and the Limits of Conceptual Analysis (2001) (9)
- Why Evolutionary Biology is (so Far) Irrelevant to Law (2007) (8)
- Against Convergent Moral Realism: The Respective Roles of Philosophical Argument and Empirical Evidence (2008) (8)
- A Reconsideration of the Relevance and Materiality of the Preamble in Constitutional Interpretation (1990) (7)
- Chapter 15. American Legal Realism (2010) (7)
- Objectivity and the Problems of Jurisprudence (reviewing Kent Greenawalt, Law and Objectivity (1992)) (1993) (7)
- How to Rank Law Schools (2005) (6)
- Incommensurability: Truth or Consequences? (1998) (5)
- The History of Philosophy Reveals that ‘Great’ Philosophy is Disguised Moral Advocacy: A Nietzschean Case against the Socratic Canon in Philosophy (2018) (5)
- The Radicalism of Legal Positivism (2010) (5)
- Nietzsche's Philosophy of Action (2009) (5)
- Mind doesn't matter yet (1994) (5)
- Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law: Volume 2 (2013) (5)
- The innocence of becoming: Nietzsche against guilt (2017) (5)
- Closet Dualism and Mental Causation (1998) (5)
- Measuring the Academic Distinction of Law Faculties Interpreting Legal Citations (2000) (5)
- One health, one earth, one sun (1998) (5)
- Naturalizing jurisprudence: three approaches (2008) (4)
- The Path of the Law and Its Influence: Holmes, Economics, and Classical Realism (2000) (4)
- Marxism and the Continuing Irrelevance of Normative Theory (reviewing G. A. Cohen, If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? (2000)) (2002) (4)
- Book Review (reviewing Ronald Dworkin, ed., Justice in Robes (2006) & Scott Hershovitz, ed., Exploring Law's Empire: The Jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin (2006)) (2006) (4)
- The Death of God and the Death of Morality (2019) (4)
- Naturalized Epistemology and the Law of Evidence: Reply to Redmayne (2003) (3)
- Why Academic Freedom (2017) (3)
- Science and Morality: Pragmatic Reflections on Rorty's 'Pragmatism' (2007) (3)
- Theoretical Disagreements in Law: Another Look (2016) (3)
- Nietzsche and Moral Psychology (2015) (3)
- Why Blogs Are Bad for Legal Scholarship (2006) (3)
- Nietzsche, Naturalism and Normativity (reviewing Christopher Janaway and Simon Robertson (eds.), Nietzsche, Naturalism and Normativity (2012)) (2014) (3)
- The Philosophical Gourmet (1999) (2)
- What is a realist theory of law? (2020) (2)
- Objectivity in Law and Morals: Contributors (2000) (2)
- Friedrich Nietzsche: Daybreak: Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy (1997) (2)
- Explanation and Legal Theory (1997) (2)
- H. L. A. Hart (2005) (2)
- Why Quine Is Not a Postmodernist (1997) (2)
- Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy (review) (1993) (2)
- Legal Positivism about the Artifact Law: A Retrospective Assessment (2017) (2)
- The Law of Religious Liberty in a Tolerant Society (2011) (2)
- New Preface to the Greek Edition of Nietzsche on Morality (2009) (2008) (2)
- A Note on Legal Indeterminacy (2007) (2)
- Nietzsche (1844–1900) (2015) (2)
- Bernard Williams's Debt to Nietzsche: Real or Illusory? (2019) (2)
- Legal Positivism as a Realist Theory of Law (2020) (2)
- The Law School Observer (2000) (1)
- Llewellyn, Karl Nickerson (1893–1962) (2001) (1)
- The Epistemology of the Internet and the Regulation of Speech in America (2021) (1)
- The Circumstances of Civility (2011) (1)
- Holmes, Nietzsche & Classical Realism (2000) (1)
- Legal Positivism about the Artifact Law (2018) (1)
- Objectivity: Philosophical Aspects (2001) (1)
- On the 'Esoteric' Reading of Nietzsche (2014) (1)
- Prospects and Problems for the Social Epistemology of Evidence Law (2001) (1)
- Review. Nietzsche: the ethics of an immoralist. Peter Berkowitz (1996) (1)
- On the Value of Normative Theory: A Reply to Madry and Richeimer (1998) (1)
- Critical Remarks on Shapiro's Legality and the 'Grounding Turn' in Recent Jurisprudence (2020) (1)
- Nietzsche's Moral Psychology (2018) (1)
- The Middle Way (1995) (1)
- Who Is Nietzsche's 'Sovereign Individual'? (2011) (1)
- Introduction: From Legal Realism to Naturalized Jurisprudence (2006) (1)
- The state of the vocation (2008) (1)
- Back to Hart (2021) (1)
- Postscript to Part II: Science and Methodology in Legal Theory * (2007) (1)
- Book Review (reviewing Peter Poellner, Nietzsche and Metaphysics (1995) and John Richardson, Nietzsche's System (1996)) (1998) (1)
- Moral Knowledge: Moral Facts and Best Explanations (2001) (1)
- Friedrich Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols (2014) (1)
- American Philosophy Today (2005) (1)
- Karl Nickerson Llewellyn (2001) (1)
- A commentary on the First Essay (2003) (0)
- What is “genealogy” and what is the Genealogy? (2003) (0)
- No vital stuff (1998) (0)
- Nietzsche (2018) (0)
- Introductions to Nietzsche: Nietzsche: Daybreak (2012) (0)
- A Positive View of Freedom? (2019) (0)
- Marx and Marxism (2019) (0)
- Chicago Unbound Chicago Unbound The Folk Theory of Well-Being The Folk Theory of Well-Being (2022) (0)
- Nietzsche and the critique of morality: Philosophical naturalism in Nietzsche's theory of value. (1995) (0)
- Justifying Academic Freedom (2018) (0)
- Objectivity in Law and Morals: Bibliography (2000) (0)
- Chapter IV. Why Respect Religion (2014) (0)
- JNS 40_Reviews.indd (2010) (0)
- Friedrich Nietzsche: Daybreak: Chronology (1997) (0)
- Nietzsche's Naturalism: Neither Liberal nor Illiberal (2019) (0)
- Reply to Hoekema's Review of Wilshire (2002) (0)
- Nietzsche Against Marx on the Causes of Suffering (2021) (0)
- Preface to the Paperback Edition (2014) (0)
- The Naturalized Epistemology Approach to Evidence (2020) (0)
- Friedrich Nietzsche: Daybreak: Editors' note (1997) (0)
- Realism About Precedent (2022) (0)
- Janaway on Nietzsche, Genealogy, and Naturalism: A Critical Review (2008) (0)
- Introduction (2019) (0)
- Review Essay of Janaway & Robertson (Editors), Nietzsche, Naturalism and Normativity (Oxford, 2012) (2013) (0)
- Chapter III. Why Tolerate Religion (2014) (0)
- Odd champions of the everyday (1999) (0)
- Chapter II. Religion (2014) (0)
- Foucault as a kind of realist: genealogical critique and the debunking of the human sciences (2020) (0)
- The Theory of Esoteric Law (2007) (0)
- The Roles of Judges in Democracies: A Realistic View (2020) (0)
- Untimely Review of Friedrich Nietzsche's, Twilight of the Idols (2013) (0)
- POSITIVISM , FORMALISM (2017) (0)
- Rigor or rhetoric : Public philosopher and public in dialogue 0 (2019) (0)
- The M ethodology of Legal Philosophy (2012) (0)
- Book Review (reviewing Richard Schacht, ed., Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Essays on Neitzsche's Prelude to Philosophy's Future (2001)) (2003) (0)
- 3rd Bimal Matilal Memorial Conference on Indian Philosophy 2000 Conference Announcement and Call for Papers (2000) (0)
- SOY volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2001) (0)
- The Profession of Philosophy Redux (2010) (0)
- Book Review (reviewing Christopher Janaway, Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy (2007)) (2008) (0)
- Nietzsche’s critique of morality II: the critique of moral norms (2003) (0)
- Objectivity in Law and Morals: Objectivity, Morality, and Adjudication (2000) (0)
- Nietzsche’s Anti-Realism about Value (2019) (0)
- Marx's Economics and the Transition from Capitalism to Communism (2022) (0)
- Fear of Theory<product> <article-title>Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict</article-title> <contrib-group><contrib> <name index="Sunstein, Cass R."> <given-names>Cass R.</given-names> <surname>Sunstein</surname> </name> </contrib></contrib-group> </product> (2007) (0)
- Why Should Capitalism Self-Destruct? Marx's Account Reconsidered (2022) (0)
- Current Debate / Critical Legal Studies (1988) (0)
- Moralities are a Sign-Language of the Affects (2019) (0)
- Charles Alan Wright: Legal Realist (2000) (0)
- The Folk Theory of Well-Being (2022) (0)
- Book Review (reviewing Tamsin Shaw, Nietzsche’s Political Skepticism (2007)) (2009) (0)
- Chapter I. Toleration (2014) (0)
- Friedrich Nietzsche: Daybreak: Further reading (1997) (0)
- Why Tolerate Religion, Again? A Reply to Michael McConnell (2016) (0)
- Reply to Five Critics of Why Tolerate Religion? (2016) (0)
- Moralizing Nietzsche's Moral Psychology: The Case of Katsafanas (2016) (0)
- Introduction: Nietzsche's Naturalistic Moral Psychology (2017) (0)
- Anglophone Analytic Legal Philosophy (2022) (0)
- Chapter V. The Law of Religious Liberty in a Tolerant Society (2014) (0)
- The fate of genius (2002) (0)
- A New Approach to the Question of Nietzsche's Political Philosophy: A Review of Tamsin Shaw's Nietzsche's Political Skepticism (2007) (2008) (0)
- Culture and Value in Nietzsche (2019) (0)
- Leading New Books: Seven Scholars Recommend New and Recent Books on Jurisprudence (1998) (0)
- Nietzsche since 1900: critical questions (2003) (0)
- Nietzsche’s Theory of Agency (2019) (0)
- Oxford Studies in Legal Philosophy, vol. 2 (2013) (0)
- Fear of Theory (reviewing Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict by Cass R. Sunstein) (2015) (0)
- A commentary on the Third Essay (2003) (0)
- Tort Theory and the Objectivity of Corrective (2017) (0)
- Tort Theory and the Objectivity of Corrective Justice (1995) (0)
- Anti-Realism, Value, Perspectivism (2019) (0)
- Knowledge and affect (2019) (0)
- Justifying Academic Freedom: Mill and Marcuse Revisited (2017) (0)
- Some Realism about Political and Legal Philosophy (2022) (0)
- Postscript to Part I: Interpreting Legal Realism (2007) (0)
- Disagreement, Anti-Realism about Reasons, and Inference to the Best Explanation (2021) (0)
- Alf Ross's Critique of American Legal Realism - and a Naturalistic Critique of Ross (2022) (0)
- Rorty’s Rejection of Philosophy (2019) (0)
- Interview About Legal Philosophy (2007) (0)
- Friedrich Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols (2013) (0)
- Emden on Nietzsche's Naturalism: A Critical Assessment (2015) (0)
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