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Justin Leiber (born 1938) is an American philosopher and science fiction writer. He is the son of science fiction author Fritz Leiber. Previously a professor at the University of Houston, Leiber is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He has been a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford during the Trinity term on numerous occasions.

Life
Leiber was born in 1938 in Chicago Illinois to writers Fritz Leiber and Jonquil Stephens Leiber. In 1972, he received a Bachelor of Philosophy from Oxford University, and later a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago.

Academic career
Leiber has had numerous academic appointments, including assistant professorships at Utica College of Syracuse University from 1963 to 1965, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York from 1966 to 1968, and Lehman College from 1968 to 1977. Previously a professor at the University of Houston, Leiber is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University.

Works
Leiber's literary works have encompassed a number of subjects, including philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science. He has published analysis of Alan Turing's Turing Test and the work of Noam Chomsky. Some of both his fiction and non-fiction books have dealt with intelligence and consciousness.

Fiction

 * Beyond Gravity. New York: Thomas Dougherty Associates, 1988.
 * Beyond Humanity. New York: Thomas Dougherty Associates, 1987.
 * Beyond Rejection. New York: Book Club Hardcover (Doubleday), 1980.
 * The Sword and the Eye. New York: Thomas Dougherty Associates, 1985.
 * The Sword and the Tower. New York: Thomas Dougherty Associates, 1986.

Non-fiction

 * Paradoxes. London: Duckworth, 1993.
 * An Invitation to Cognitive Science. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
 * Can Animals and Machines Be Persons?. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Hackett Publishing,1986.
 * Structuralism: Skepticism and Mind in the Psychological Sciences. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.
 * Noam Chomsky: A Philosophic Overview, Boston: G. K. Hall, 1975.