Brian Leiter

University of Chicago

Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy & Human Values

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1.

American Legal Realism

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 42
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 29 Oct 2002
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Beyond the Hart/Dworkin Debate: The Methodology Problem in Jurisprudence

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 34
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 23 Mar 2005
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Recovering Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 72
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 23 Mar 2005
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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The End of Empire: Dworkin and Jurisprudence in the 21st Century

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 70
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 30 Sep 2004
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Jurisprudence, Philosophy, Dworkin

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Why Tolerate Religion?

Constitutional Commentary, Winter 2008
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 26 May 2006
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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religion, toleration, jurisprudence

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The Case Against Free Speech

38 Sydney Law Review 407 (2016)
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 17 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2016
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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free speech, John Stuart Mill, Friedrich Hayek, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, autonomy, Kant, Marx, harm principle

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The Case for Nietzschean Moral Psychology

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 12 Oct 2005
Joshua Knobe and Brian Leiter
affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Chicago
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The Truth is Terrible

Journal of Nietzsche Studies (Fall 2018 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Jan 2020
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, life, morality, art, aesthetic value

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Nietzsche

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Nietzsche

Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth Century Philosophy, M. Forster & K. Gjesdal, eds. (2014)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 17 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2013
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche

J. Doris & M. Vargas (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (2019, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 23 Jul 2018
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, moral psychology, anti-realism, free will, consciousness, drives, epiphenomenalism

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Why Marxism Still Does Not Need Normative Theory

Analyse und Kritik, 2015, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Aug 2015
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Marx, Habermas, G.A. Cohen, political philosophy, historical materialism, philosophical methodology

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Why Legal Positivism?

U of Chicago, Public Law Working
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 14 Dec 2009
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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legal positivism, natural law theory, American Legal Realism, Hart, Kelsen, Finnis, Raz, Dworkin

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In Praise of Realism (and Against 'Nonsense' Jurisprudence)

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 138
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 28 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2010
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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jurisprudence, Thucydides, Plato, Dworkin, Posner, Realism, Llewellyn

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The Death of God and the Death of Morality

Forthcoming in a special issue of THE MONIST on Nietzsche
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2019
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, theism, morality

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The Epistemic Status of the Human Sciences: Critical Reflections on Foucault

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 279
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 20 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2009
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Foucault, Nietzsche, human sciences, epistemology

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Interview About Legal Philosophy

LEGAL PHILOSOPHY: 5 QUESTIONS, Automatic Press, 2007, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 120
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 17 May 2007
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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The Methodology of Legal Philosophy

H. Cappelen, T. Gendler, & J. Hawthorne (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 407
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 28 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2013
Alex Langlinais and Brian Leiter
University of Chicago and University of Chicago
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H.L.A. Hart, methodology, descriptive jurisprudence, conceptual analysis, John Searle, legal philosophy, general jurisprudence

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The Radicalism of Legal Positivism

Guild Practitioner, 2010, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 303
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 12 Mar 2010
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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The Theory of Esoteric Law

Journal of Legal Education, Summer 2007, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 121
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 27 Feb 2007
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Jurisprudence, Dworkin, Posner, Sunstein

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Nietzsche's Naturalism Reconsidered

Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche, 2009, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 235
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 24 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2009
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, naturalism, moral philosophy, moral psychology

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Morality Critics

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY, B. Leiter & M. Rosen, eds., Oxford University Press, 2007, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 114
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 21 Dec 2006
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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ethics, Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, Foucault

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Who is the 'Sovereign Individual'? Nietzsche on Freedom

CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL GUIDE TO NIETZSCHE'S ON THE GENEALOGY OF MORALITY, Simon May, ed., 2010
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 15 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2009
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, free will, freedom

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Legal Formalism and Legal Realism: What Is the Issue?

Legal Theory, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2010, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 320
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 26 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2010
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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legal realism, legal formalism, adjudication, legal reasoning, legal indeterminacy, legal history

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Moral Skepticism and Moral Disagreement in Nietzsche

Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Vol. 9 (Oxford University Press, 2014), U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 257
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2013
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, morality, skepticism, metaethics, anti-realism

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Objectivity, Morality and Adjudication

OBJECTIVITY IN LAW AND MORALS, Brian Leiter, Cambridge University Press, 2001
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 10 Apr 2000
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Why Evolutionary Biology is (so Far) Irrelevant to Law

U of Texas Law, Law & Econ Research Paper No. 81, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 89
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 23 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2014
Brian Leiter and Michael Weisberg
University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania
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evolution, natural selection, law, biology

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Why Legal Positivism (Again)?

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 442
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 10 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2013
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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legal positivism, natural law, legal realism, H.L.A. Hart, Joseph Raz, Hans Kelsen, Leslie Green, Alf Ross, Ronald Dworkin

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Explaining Theoretical Disagreement

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 124
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 Aug 2007
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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The Demarcation Problem in Jurisprudence: A New Case for Skepticism

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 32, No. 1, Spring 2012
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 May 2010 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2011
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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legal positivism, natural law theory, morality, legal validity, non-cognitivism, psychologism, general jurisprudence, H.L.A. Hart, Hans Kelsen, Joseph Raz, John Finnis, Rudolf Carnap, Carl Hempel, Karl Popper, Larry Laudan, Lon Fuller

29.

What is a Realist Theory of Law?

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 04 Feb 2020
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Marx, Law, Ideology, Legal Positivism

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 101, 2015
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 14 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2015
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Iegal positivism, Marx, Hart, Dworkin Finnis, ideology

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The Epistemology of the Internet and the Regulation of Speech in America

Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2022
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 11 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2022
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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regulation of speech, the Internet, First Amendment, epistemic authority, Fairness Doctrine, speech in cyberspace

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Introduction: From Legal Realism to Naturalized Jurisprudence

University of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 104
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 23 Aug 2006
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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The Innocence of Becoming: Nietzsche Against Guilt

Inquiry 2019 (annual International Society for Nietzsche Studies issue)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2018
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, free will, moral responsibility, guilt, reactive attitudes, P.F. Strawson, Gary Watson

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Philosophy of Law

ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 2015, Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 15/18
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2018
Brian Leiter and Michael Sevel
University of Chicago and The University of Sydney - Faculty of Law
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Jurisprudence, philosophy of law, legal positivism, natural law theory, legal realism

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Is There an 'American' Jurisprudence?

U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 74
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 Jul 2005
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Foundations of Religious Liberty: Toleration or Respect?

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 275, San Diego Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2010
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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religion, toleration, respect, Nusbaum, Darwall, Blackburn

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Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Three Approaches

THE FUTURE OF NATURALISM, J. Shook & P. Kurtz, eds., Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2009, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 246
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 28 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2008
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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jurisprudence, naturalism, legal realism, quine, epistemology

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Nietzsche Against the Philosophical Canon

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 438
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2013
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, Socrates, Quine, Marx, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Carnap, meta-philosophy, ethics

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Legal Realisms, Old and New

Forthcoming in Valparaiso Law Review (2013) (2012 Seegers Lecture in Jurisprudence)
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 09 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2013
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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American legal realism, Scandinavian legal realism, Karl Llewellyn, Axel Hagerstrom, Alf Ross, naturalism, H.L.A. Hart, Hans Kelsen, judicial behavior

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Holmes, Nietzsche & Classical Realism

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Apr 2000
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Legal Positivism As a Realist Theory of Law

P. Mindus & T. Spaak (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 04 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2020
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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legal realism, naturalism, H.L.A. Hart, Joseph Raz, Alf Ross

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The Boundaries of the Moral (and Legal) Community

Alabama Law Review (2013)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 19 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2012
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Science and Morality: Pragmatic Reflections on Rorty's Pragmatism

University of Chicago Law Review, 2007, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 128
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 05 Jan 2007
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Critical Remarks on Shapiro's Legality and the 'Grounding Turn' in Recent Jurisprudence

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 Oct 2020
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Scott Shapiro, H.L.A. Hart, grounding, rule of recognition, methodology, general jurisprudence

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Why Academic Freedom?

Forthcoming in D. Downs & C. Suprenant (eds.), The Value and Limits of Academic Speech: Philosophical, Political, and Legal Perspectives (Routledge, 2018)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Dec 2017
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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academic freedom, John Stuart Mill, Wilhelm von Humboldt, science, Wissenschaft, Herbert Marcuse

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Waldron on the Regulation of Hate Speech

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2012 Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 398
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 05 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2012
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Waldron, free speech, hate speech, Marcuse, group defamation, Beauharnais

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Nietzsche's Philosophy of Action

Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Action, 2010, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 270
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 07 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2009
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, free will, moral responsibility, freedom, philosophy of action, epiphenomenalism

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Politics by Other Means: The Jurisprudence of 'Common Good Constitutionalism'

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 90, Autumn 2023
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 09 Jan 2023
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Natural law, legal positivism, Dworkin, Finnis, Thomism, common good, jurisprudence, Alf Ross, legal realism

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Naturalized Epistemology and the Law of Evidence

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 11 Dec 2001
Ronald J. Allen and Brian Leiter
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and University of Chicago
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Introduction: Nietzsche's Naturalistic Moral Psychology

Moral Psychology With Nietzsche (Oxford University Press, 2018, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Nov 2017
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, moral psychology, metaethics, sentimentalism, Hume, naturalism

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Constitutional Law, Moral Judgment, and the Supreme Court as Super-Legislature

Hastings Law Journal, 2015, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2015
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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legal positivism, Hobby Lobby, Heller, constitutional law, Shelby County

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Normativity for Naturalists

Forthcoming in Ram Neta (ed.), "Normativity," Philosophical Issues (supplement to Nous), U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 527
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 31 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2015
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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normativity, naturalism, reasons, epistemology, Quine, Nietzsche, Hume, Scanlon

53.

Marx and Marxism

Forthcoming, Martin Kusch (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Relativism.
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 07 Mar 2019
Lawrence Dallman and Brian Leiter
University of Chicago and University of Chicago
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Marx, relativism, natural kinds, science, ideology, Luckas, Habermas, Leni

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Naturalized Jurisprudence and American Legal Realism Revisited

Law and Philosophy, 2011, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 352
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 May 2011
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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legal realism, naturalism, jurisprudence, methodology

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Legal Positivism About the Artifact Law: A Retrospective Assessment

L. Burazin et al. (eds.), Law as Artifact (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 21 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2017
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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legal positivism, artifact, naturalism, Leslie Green, Luka Burazin

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Justifying Academic Freedom: Mill and Marcuse Revisited

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 01 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2017
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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free speech, academic freedom, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Marcuse

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The Roles of Judges in Democracies: A Realistic View

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 637
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 18 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2017
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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legal realism, democracy, adjudication, Hegel

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Some Realism about Political and Legal Philosophy

30th IVR World Congress of Social and Legal Philosophy in Buchares, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Jun 2022
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Realism, Moralism, Thucydides, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Marx, Rawls, Dworkin, Hart, Legal Realism, Political Realism

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The Circumstances of Civility

CIVILITY AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, Washington State University Press, 2011, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 351
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 09 Apr 2011
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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civility, democracy, politics, obligation

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Marx's Economics and the Transition from Capitalism to Communism

Forthcoming, Jamie Edwards & Brian Leiter, Marx (Routledge Philosophers series).
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 19 Sep 2022
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Marx, labor theory of value, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, fetishism of commodities, exploitation, wage slavery, Milton Friedman, Rosa Luxemburg, freedom

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On the 'Esoteric' Reading of Nietzsche

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 16 May 2014
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, David Dudrick, Leo Strauss, philosophy, morality

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How to Rank Law Schools

Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 81, 2006
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 07 Dec 2005
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Law School, Rankings, Legal Education, U.S. News

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Foucault as a Kind of Realist: Genealogical Critique and the Debunking of the Human Sciences

Forthcoming in a special issue of INQUIRY on "Genealogy and Political Philospohy"
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 30 May 2019
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Foucault, political realism, genealogy, human sciences, Marx

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Bernard Williams's Debt to Nietzsche: Real or Illusory?

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 24 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2020
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Bernard Williams, Nietzsche, historicism, Thomas Nagel, Homer, Burckhardt

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The History of Philosophy Reveals that 'Great' Philosophy is Disgused Moral Advocacy: A Nietzschean Case Against the Socratic Canon in Philosophy

Marcel van Ackern (ed.), Proceedings of the British Academy 214: Philosophy and the Historical Perspective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 185-199.
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 18 Dec 2019
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, Carnap, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Quine, Socrates

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Reply to Five Critics of Why Tolerate Religion?

Criminal Law & Philosophy, 2015, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 514
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Mar 2015
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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religious liberty, toleration, exemptions, Rawls, Mill, Marx, Nietzsche

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The Paradoxes of Public Philosophy

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 517
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 15 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2015
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Rorty and the Philosophical Tradition: A Comment on Professor Szubka

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 298
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 10 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2010
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Rorty, analytic philosophy, Sellars, Quine, Nietzsche, metaphilosophy

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Why Should Capitalism Self-Destruct? Marx's Account Reconsidered

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 May 2022
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Why Tolerate Religion, Again? A Reply to Michael McConnell

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 580
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 11 May 2016 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2016
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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On the Relevance of Etiology to Justifciation (with reference to Marx and Nietzsche)

Midwest Studies in Philosophy (special issue on "Genealogy"), forthcoming
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 02 Oct 2023
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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etiology, genealogy, justification, reliabilism, safety, G.A. Cohen, Roger White, Amia Srinivasan, Marx, Nietzsche

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Janaway on Nietzsche, Genealogy, and Naturalism: A Critical Review

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 21 May 2008
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, naturalism, genealogy, free will

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Nietzsche Against Marx on the Causes of Suffering

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 02 Jul 2021
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, Marx, Suffering, Sickness, Amor Fati, Ascetic Morality, Ressentiment, Reaction Formation

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Theoretical Disagreements in Law: Another Look

D. Plunkett, S. Shapiro, & K. Toh (eds.), ETHICAL NORMS, LEGAL NORMS: NEW ESSAYS IN MEATETHICS AND JURISPRUDENCE (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 31 Aug 2016
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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legal positivism, theoretical disagreement, H.L.A. Hart, Ronald Dworkin, Kevin Toh

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Back to Hart

Annals of the Faculty of Law-Belgrade Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 04 Oct 2021
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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H.L.A. Hart, Gilbert Ryle, internal point of view, theoretical disagreement, metaphysical grounding

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The Folk Theory of Well-Being

forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy, Volume 5, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 795
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 29 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2024
John Bronsteen, Brian Leiter, Jonathan S. Masur and Kevin Tobia
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, University of Chicago, University of Chicago - Law School and Georgetown University Law Center
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well-being, happiness, hedonism, preferentism, good life

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Legal Realism and Legal Doctrine

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2015, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 528
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 04 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2015
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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American Legal Realism, American Law Institute, Charles Alan Wright

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Disagreement, Anti-Realism About Reasons, and Inference to the Best Explanation

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Aug 2018
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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inference to the best explanation, anti-realism, metaethics, reasons, consilience, conservativism, simplicity, deontology, utilitarianism, virtue ethics, duality of practical reason, Nietzsche, Parfit, Enoch

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Knowledge and Affect: Perspectivism Revisited

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 31 Jul 2017
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, Perspectivism, Kant, Thucydides, Darwin, Hume, Knowledge, Truth

80.

The Law of Religious Liberty in a Tolerant Society

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 343
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 28 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2011
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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81.

A New Approach to the Question of Nietzsche's Political Philosophy: A Review of Tamsin Shaw's Nietzsche's Political Skepticism (2007)

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, January 2009
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 22 Dec 2008
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, political philosophy

82.

Realism, Disagreement, and Explanation

Philosophy & Phenomenological Research (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 19 Aug 2021
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Gilbert Harman, W.V.O. Quine, realism, anti-realism, nominalism, disagreement, confirmation holism, inference to the best exlanation, perceptual justification

83.

Emden on Nietzsche's Naturalism: A Critical Assessment

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2015
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 24 Jul 2015
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, Kant, Lange, naturalism, physicalism

84.

How Not to Read Nietzsche's Ethics: The Case of Thomas Stern

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2021
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 13 Jul 2021
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, ethics, Thomas Stern, Maudemarie Clark, will to power

85.

Nietzsche and Moral Psychology

J. Sytsma & W. Buckwalter (eds.), Blackwell Companion to Experimental Philosophy (Forthcoming)., U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 532
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 16 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 29 May 2015
Daniel Telech and Brian Leiter
University of Chicago and University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Action, Experimental Philosophy

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Review Essay of Janaway & Robertson (Editors), Nietzsche, Naturalism and Normativity (Oxford, 2012)

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2014, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 28 Dec 2013
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, ethics, meta-ethics, moral psychology, Schopenhauer, Kant

87.

Preface to the Paperback Edition of Why Tolerate Religion?

Why Tolerate Religion? (Princeton University Press, cloth edition, 2013; 2014 Forthcoming), U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 465
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 17 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2014
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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religion, toleration

88.

Realism About Precedent

Forthcoming in T. Endicott, H. Kristjansson, & S. Lewis (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 31 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2022
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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89.

How Ideologies Are False

Social Philosophy & Policy conference on 'Ideology,' December 2-3, 2022, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 06 Dec 2022
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Marx, ideology, interests, morality, Malthus, Geuss, Nietzsche

90.

Nietzsche and Aestheticism

Journal of the History of Philosophy 30 (1992): 275-230
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 28 Jul 2017
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, Alexander Nehamas, Paul DeMan, aestheticism, literary interpretation, naturalism

91.

New Preface to the Greek Edition of Nietzsche on Morality (2009)

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 17 Dec 2008
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, morality, naturalism

92.

Moralities Are a Sign-Language of the Affects

Social Philosophy & Policy 30 (January 2013): 237-258
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 09 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2016
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, morality, non-cognitivism, emotions, metaethics

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Moralizing Nietzsche's Moral Psychology: The Case of Katsafanas

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 14 Aug 2016
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, moral psychology, constitutivism, will to power, metaethics

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Nietzsche's Naturalism: Neither Liberal nor Illiberal

M. Del Caro & D. Macarthur (eds.), THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF LIBERAL NATURALISM, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 03 Sep 2019
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, naturalism, anti-realism, liberal naturalism, physicalism, autonomy of psychology

95.

Anglophone Analytic Legal Philosophy

Forthcoming in L. Barazin, M. Green & G. Pino (eds.), Jurisprudence in the Mirror (Oxford University Press)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 02 Mar 2022
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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general jurisprudence, methodological positivism, H.L.A. Hart, Alf Ross, Norberto Bobbio, naturalized jurisprudence, legal positivism

96.

Against the Metaphysical Turn in Recent American Jurisprudence

Forthcoming in Brian Leiter, From a Realist Point of View (Oxford University Press, 2026)
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 May 2025
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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97.

How to Cabin the Realist Indeterminacy Thesis: On Green, Positivism, and the Sources of Law

To appear in a collection of essays on the philosophy of Leslie Green, edited by T. Adams, K. Greasley, and D. Reaume (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 31 Jul 2024
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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98.

Culture and Value in Nietzsche

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 18 Nov 2019
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, Culture, Value, Metaethics, Andrew Huddleston

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Preface to the Chinese translation of the 2nd edition of NIETZSCHE ON MORALITY

The Chinese translation will be published by the Shanghai People's Publishing House in 2024.
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 21 Feb 2024
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Nietzsche, naturalism, German Materialism

100.

Alf Ross's Critique of American Legal Realism - and a Naturalistic Critique of Ross

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2022
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago
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Alf Ross, H.L.A. Hart, naturalized jurisprudence, verificationism, inference to the best explanation, Quine, Karl Llewellyn, Jerome Frank, American Legal Realism, Scandinavian Legal Realism

101.

The Naturalized Epistemology Approach to Evidence

Forthcoming in Dahlman, Stein, and Tuzet, eds., Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law (OUP 2021)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 15 Oct 2020
Gabe Broughton and Brian Leiter
Princeton University and University of Chicago
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Evidence, Naturalized epistemology, Eyewitness identification, Character evidence

102.

Untimely Review of Friedrich Nietzsche's, Twilight of the Idols

Topoi (Forthcoming)
Posted: 28 Oct 2013
Brian Leiter
University of Chicago

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Nietzsche, morality, free will, epiphenomenalism, naturalism, empiricism, Carnap, Daniel Wegner, David Rosenthal