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	The Volokh Conspiracy - Clarification About an Earlier Message From Brian Leiter to Me:
		Leiter e-mailed me and asked me to post a comment pointing out the inaccuracy, but I thought it was worth noting as a separate post.
		Leiter to me, which I quoted and attributed to "another lawprof," was not strictly speaking anonymous: He certainly signed the message to me. The message pointed out various posts at xoxohth, and argued that the operators of the site deserved to be blamed for not removing those posts.
		Leiter expressed some ambivalence, since he wasn't sure whether it was better to shame the operator, or to avoid calling more attention to what Prof.
	volokh.com /posts/1119640408.shtml (598 words)

	The Volokh Conspiracy - Brian Leiter Trying To Out Juan Non-Volokh: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Leiter's threat is petty and vindictive, albeit utterly predictable for someone who willingly admits to his contempt for civility (see here and here).
		Leiter's point, as I see it, is that the manner in which "JNV" has chosen to disagree is intellectually dishonest in a way that should be embarrassing to an academic regardless of the academic's ideological views.
		Leiter didn't just argue that the presence of bad posters on their message board is a cause for the webmasters to be embarassed and therefore moderate their site.
	volokh.com /posts/1119457598.shtml (9901 words)

	Unfogged: Comment on Brian Leiter is Two Inches Tall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I highly doubt that the TT is the main audience of Leiter's blog, or that, rational argument having failed, mockery and demonization is likely to convince them of their error.
		Brian Leiter and the philosophy student attack Ogged and baa for hiding behind the cloak of anonymity.
		What bothers me about Leiter, and what first led me to take issue with him, is the scorn and utter lack of charity or intellectual openess towards those with whom he disagrees at the moment that he sometimes displays.
	www.unfogged.com /cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=922 (2062 words)

	the evangelical outpost: Comment on A Lesson in Logic for Brian Leiter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In short, Leiter does not dismiss your argument because you are "intellectually incompetent." He dismisses you as "intellectually incompetent" because your argument is wrong.
		Leiter’s typically sloppy rhetoric doesn’t specify and since he doesn’t bother to rebut my argument directly there is no reason to assume that is the way the post should be read.
		Leiter is using Ed Brayton's rebuttal to support his claim that you and Van Dyke are intellectually incompentent.
	www.evangelicaloutpost.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=570 (2384 words)

	Brian Leiter - Reply to Leiter - Reviewed by David Hoekema, Calvin College - Philosophical Reviews - University of ...
		The Guideâs preference for analytic approaches to philosophyâ”which, as Leiter rightly observes, are today applied fruitfully to the study of Continental figuresâ”does not entail, nor did I suggest, that philosophers and deans ought to disregard its comments and rankings.
		For the record, since Leiter came to a contrary conclusion, I do not endorse Bruce Wilshireâs claim that analytic philosophers are Cartesian phenomenalists, nor do I agree with him that analytic philosophy inevitably severs head from heart.
		Leiterâs further claim that SPEP members are concentrated in âless than 20 departmentsâ strikes me as dubious, but perhaps it is true.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1078 (437 words)

	Discovery Institute - News - The Professor’s Paroxysm
		Legal philosopher Brian Leiter of the University of Texas is a self-proclaimed disciple of Nietzsche who fiercely champions a Darwinian materialist vision of the world from his weblog, The Leiter Reports.
		Leiter is the author of The Philosophical Gourmet Report which ranks graduate philosophy programs "in the English-speaking world." His rankings are respected and followed.
		Accordingly, Leiter is a powerful figure in the academy who is invited to speak by peers who may find him personally objectionable but too important to offend or ignore.
	www.discovery.org /scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=1930&program=News-CSC&callingPage=discoMainPage (755 words)

	Right Reason: Since I'm Not Brian Leiter...
		Leiter allows himself is both (a) extremely unusual and (b) widely found offensive, he really needs to come up with a stronger defense of it than anything that is provided by these rather sketchy remarks.
		Leiter's tone is certainly hostile, but the content itself involves a remarkably detailed analysis and evaluation of the original piece, with plenty of defense of the criticism.
		Leiter claims to defend it; Burton responds that at most Leiter shows that we should ignore some people, and even granting that Leiter has successfully defended incivility, he does not give a plausible account of when it is defensible.
	rightreason.ektopos.com /archives/2005/07/since_im_not_br.html (4833 words)

	Right Reason: If I Were Brian Leiter...
		Brian: back when we were in grad school together, and you would regale us all with your encyclopedic knowledge of the professional (and personal!) lives of our professors, I thought you were entertaining and harmless.
		Brian: there is a difference between "criticizing awful arguments" and calling people "idiots" and "liars" and issuing veiled threats about their professional prospects.
		But Leiter seems unable to comprehend the straightforward point of such a parody; instead, he seems to believe that all of the language in the original post was meant in the utmost seriousness.
	rightreason.ektopos.com /archives/2005/07/if_i_were_brian.html (7008 words)

	Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brian Leiter, 1993 Woodinville High School graduate and son of Ron and Lynn Leiter (longtime residents of Woodinville), was awarded the "Top Stick" Award in the 8th Flying Squadron at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Oklahoma.
		Brian is a 1995 graduate of Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake, where he received his commercial pilot's license.
		Brian has received many honors, which include Distinguished Graduate at Sheppard AFB and Outstanding Aircraft Maintenance Technician for 1998.
	www.nwnews.com /editions/2000/20000417/feature4.html (186 words)

	Winds of Change.NET: Why does Brian Leiter Want to Kill Poor People? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Not only does it drive away what Leiter calls the "brainwashed" "cowed" and "fooled" by it's affect, but it leads to a myopia and unwillingness to change, react, and cope with the reality that is far from "easy." So we get bad people expounding bad politics.
		Leiter didn't sound like a law professor, but a quick google for the Socratic method on his website explained why.
		Discussion of Brian Leiter's demeanor from personal experience strikes me as germane to this post, which is in part about that very subject.
	www.windsofchange.net /archives/007098.php (9043 words)

	Pejmanesque: Comment on THE LESS BRIAN LEITER KNOWS, THE LESS HE KNOWS IT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In days of yore, the likes of Professor [sic] Leiter could be found walking around with noses high in the air, sniffing about "proper breeding" and people who were not "their sort." It seems that qualifications for entitlement to self-absorbed arrogance have either been drastically lowered, or else otherwise ignored by the good professor [sic].
		Leiter seems to be the sort of person who will be forever worried that somewhere on Earth there's a person who doesn't appreciate the degree to which their intellect pales in comparison to his.
		Leiter is just envious of the depth and vibrance of the blogosphere as a political forum.
	www.pejmanesque.com /cgi-bin/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=5187 (2176 words)

	Butterflies and Wheels Article
		Leiter: Whether the "excluded" elements "return" depends on the plausiblity of Derridean readings of texts--and thus we are back at the first point, which can only be adjudicated by contrasting Derridean readings of texts with readings by other scholars.
		The resemblance to the Freudian conception of repression is superficial and misleading: Freud presents a scientific account of the psychic economy of the mind, according to which, necessarily, certain kinds of psychic energy and the ideas to which they were originally attached manifest themselves in human behavior long after their original occurrence.
		Brian Leiter is Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Law & Philosophy Program at the University of Texas at Austin.
	www.butterfliesandwheels.com /articleprint.php?num=95 (1400 words)

	The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates: Why Are Universities Dominated by the Left? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		FINAL UPDATE: Professor Feser is understandably upset that I've called the attention of the profession to his display, and so, in reply, he has now misrepresented what he said before.
		He says "Brian Leiter...disagrees with my assertion that conservatives are treated with condescension and hostility in the modern university." But that was not Professor Feser's assertion; his assertion concerned the themes suffusing university curriculums, as noted above.
		Of course, the Brighouse hypothesis, above, may be the correct one.
	webapp.utexas.edu /blogs/archives/bleiter/000817.html (848 words)

	Pejmanesque: THE LESS BRIAN LEITER KNOWS, THE LESS HE KNOWS IT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		THE LESS BRIAN LEITER KNOWS, THE LESS HE KNOWS IT For those of you who have the pleasure of being ignorant of his existence, Brian Leiter is a law and philosophy professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
		As such, Leiter's quote of Chomsky serves no purpose whatsoever, except to give Chomsky's micro view of the state of anti-Semitism, to distract from the debate at hand, and to try to sugarcoat Chomsky's comments with a face-saving comparison when none was offered in Chomsky's original comments.
		It is fitting that Leiter should close his imbecilic screed with projection rhetoric about "ignorance," and "prejudices," and with the employment of a logical fallacy.
	www.pejmanesque.com /archives/005187.html (4886 words)

	the evangelical outpost: On Methodological Naturalism and Intelligent Design (or Why Can't ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Leiter, of course, would claim that we should use Occam’s razor and exclude the necessity of the fl hole to explain the missing socks.
		Leiter’s reasoning shows that his bias against intelligent design theory is not rooted in science but in prejudice.
		Leiter: VanDyke could not have included quotes showing that the philosophers among them think methodological naturalism is an a priori dogma—that’s the issue.
	www.evangelicaloutpost.com /archives/000568.html (7840 words)

	Leiter's Law School Reports: Red Alert: Fordham Law Review is Still Interested in the "Quality" of Articles--unlike ...
		Leiter's Law School Reports: Red Alert: Fordham Law Review is Still Interested in the "Quality" of Articles--unlike Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Michigan, Stanford, Texas, Virginia et al.
		Brian Leiter manages to snipe at both Fordham and the top law reviews about the article length policy, leading to many people responding, most of which I haven't read.
		Leiter has noted in the ID/HLR/VanDyke context, reputations can be built off of a single top publication--even after the particular article has been destroyed with objections.
	leiterlawschool.typepad.com /leiter/2005/08/attention_fordh.html (4838 words)

	damnum absque injuria » ‘Hat of the Day: Brian Leiter
		Law professor / blogger / a-hole extraordinaire Brian Leiter has joined the ranks of Metropulse-bully Brian Conley and is attempting to out Juan Non-Volokh in retaliation for having the audacity to disagree publicly with Brian Leiter.
		Prof Leiter is not only what we used to call “a piece of work”, but internally inconsistent.
		He says “Disagreement is a necessary, but not a sufficient occasion for harsh language: the disagreement also has to be stupid or absurd or, in short, intellectually and morally dishonest, and so not worth its time.
	xrlq.com /2005/06/22/hat-of-the-day-brian-leiter (505 words)

	danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: When tenured philosophers attack
		Generalizing from that one sentence to conclude that Leiter's entire body of work is rubbish would be wrong.
		Leiter's an academic of the worst sort--obviously more interested in "academia" and academic hierarchy than in the subject he teaches (he doesn't seem to care about Nietzsche as much as about Nietszche studies, for instance).
		Brian Leiter constantly embarrasses himself with his incessant name calling, pot shots, and overgeneralizations about the intellectual potential of others.
	www.danieldrezner.com /archives/000908.html (2570 words)

	Sitting on a Fence
		Brian Leiter [you'll need to scroll down] provides a case in point.
		Leiter seems willing to accept that Strauss and his students’ work is grossly inaccurate and devoid of serious argumentation because Myles Burnyeat says so.
		Leiter seems to be a lover of opinion – and of power.
	j3.blogspot.com /2003_05_11_j3_archive.html (5898 words)

	Brian Leiter Gourmet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In Goidelic mythology, and especially Scotland, Brian was a bumbling fool who helped Cailleach rescue Dia Griene.
		'Brian' is also the name of Boru, High King of Ireland, who was victorious over the Danes at the Battle ofClontarf in 1014 CE.
		Commonly appearing connections are : Brian Leiter Gourmet, Brian Leiter Law School Rankings, Brian Leiter Law School Rankings, Brian Lem, Brian Lem, Brian Lemay, Brian Lemay, Brian Lenhart, Brian Lenhart, Brian Lenz, Brian Lenz, Brian Lester, Brian Lester, Brian Levant, Brian Levant, Brian Levin, Brian Levin, Brian Levine, Brian Levine, Brian Levinson
	www.shad-rapp.com /info/45783-brian_leiter_gourmet.html (374 words)

	Maverick Philosopher: Hodges' Letter to Brian Leiter
		Had Jeff Hodges told me that he was intending to write to Brian Leiter, I would have advised him not to waste his time.
		Jeff seems not to appreciate what status-obsessed elitists of Leiter's sort are like, and, not being a philosopher, Jeff has probably never heard of Leiter himself.
		You need to find out more about Leiter in particular, and the worst sort of analytic philosopher in general.
	maverickphilosopher.blogspot.com /2004/11/hodges-letter-to-brian-leiter.html (490 words)

	Unfogged: Comment on Brian Leiter Buys a Cheeseburger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Leiter's wry wit comes across as much more abrasive when he puts it into writing.
		The real problem with Leiter's encounter is that he went to McDonald's at all, instead of In'n'Out.
		I just realized something about Leiter's post: it involves a kid, crappy food, feeding crappy food to the kid, and an experience with subpar service workers.
	www.unfogged.com /cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1532 (434 words)

	Letters of Marque: The Brian Leiter Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The whole point, though is to link to Glorfindel of Gondolin (http://www.cuivienen.org/blog/) using the words Brian Leiter.
		I'll track the number of Brian Leiter links to Glorfindel, as found by Technorati versus time.
		I'll also track the google rank of Glorfindel versus time, and of course, the number of Brian Leiter links versus google rank.
	blog.qiken.org /archives/000277.html (1198 words)

	Foreign Dispatches: Praise for Brian Leiter
		I'm not Herr Leiter's biggest fan by any means, but I have to voice my full approval of this take of his on the execrable Jacques Derrida, for whom yet another nonsensical apology stuffed with banalities and outright untruths has recently been published in the NYT.
		I am, needless to say, with the vast majority of philosophers in thinking Derrida's work of a philosophical nature was badly confused and pernicious in its influence, and in the substantial minority within that group who formed that opinion after actually reading his work.
		This isn't a left-vs-right thing, as apart from leftie Brian Leiter, we've also got Noam Chomsky on the record as being resolutely contemptuous of everything the French charlatan had to peddle (not to talk of Paul Gross, Norman Levitt, Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont).
	foreigndispatches.typepad.com /dispatches/2004/10/praise_for_bria.html (484 words)

	the evangelical outpost: A Lesson in Logic for Brian Leiter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This latest post from Brian Leiter is rather instructive: If you haven't had your fill of the ignorant peddlers of ID creationism being eaten alive...then do check out this demolition of one of VanDyke's defenders.
		The irony of Leiter claiming that others should read an explanation about an ad hominem fallacy while dismissing my argument because I am "intellectually incompetent" is priceless.
		Perhaps since Leiter took the time to post this ad hominem rant he will also take the time to answer the question in this post.
	www.evangelicaloutpost.com /archives/000570.html (3504 words)

	Naturalism in Legal Philosophy
		Replacement forms of M-naturalism hold that: (1) conceptual analysis of the concept of law should be replaced by reliance on the best social scientific explanations of legal phenomena, and (2) normative theories of adjudication should be replaced by empirical theories.
		The most radical version of M-naturalism, Replacement Naturalism, is articulated and defended in Leiter (2001b, 2001c) and, arguably, in the American Legal Realists (Llewellyn 1930; Moore and Callahan 1943; Leiter 1997).
		Just as semantic doctrines more-or-less derived from logical positivism were central to the S-naturalism of Scandinavian Realism, the more recent S-naturalism of writers like Brink, Moore, and Stavropoulos is indebted to the revolution in semantics initiated by Hilary Putnam and Saul Kripke known as the “new” or “causal” theory of reference.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/lawphil-naturalism (8183 words)

	Mirror of Justice: Brian Leiter Responds on Rudenstine
		Responses will be posted at our discretion, and we will presume that you have granted us the permission to post your response and name unless you expressly indicate otherwise.
		I would have thought that Rudenstine was marking exactly this kind ofdistinction by calling attention to the kind of "faith" that sets itself in opposition to evidence, for example, from the sciences.
		But it is reassuring to see that Brian himself would make the kind of distinction about "faith" suggested in my original post.
	www.mirrorofjustice.com /mirrorofjustice/2005/06/brian_leiter_re.html (783 words)

	ProfessorBainbridge.com: Brian Leiter on Recent Changes Law School Faculty Composition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		ProfessorBainbridge.com: Brian Leiter on Recent Changes Law School Faculty Composition
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