Brian Leiter

Person · Open Library

Works

26

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Newcastle upon Tyne

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

94

Total plays

188

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,942x

2. A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films

   · 1991 · cited 26,521x

3. Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

   · 2011 · cited 19,399x

4. Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

   · 2009 · cited 18,973x

5. Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

   · 1977 · cited 18,334x

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Quotes

• “Rosen suggests that the rule of the few might simply be the result of coordination problems confronting the many in overthrowing the few. … The coordination problem explanation of why the few rule the many is that the many can’t coordinate their behavior to overthrow the few, but the actual phenomenon the Marxist theory explains is that the many don’t even see the need to overthrow the few, indeed, don’t even see that the few rule the many!”
• “Millions of people profess knowledge of the reality of God, claiming miracles witnessed or voices heard. If what really causes them to believe that they know of God’s existence (and that they have had these experiences) is an unconscious, infantile wish for the protection of an all-powerful father-figure, then we have reason to wonder about the epistemic status of their belief.”
• “Beliefs arrived at the wrong way are suspect: that is the epistemological point exploited by the practitioners of the hermeneutics of suspicion. It is ironic, to be sure, that, in recent years, these practitioners should have fallen prey to moralizing readings, readings that, themselves, cry out for a suspicious interpretation.”
• “On Marx’s view an individual is flourishing when … he labors freely, meaning that work is an end-in-itself, and not merely a means to “earn a living.””
• “Ideologies involve a mistake about their origin: agents think that the ideology arose because of its responsiveness to epistemically relevant considerations (e.g., evidence, reasons, etc.), when, in fact, it arose only because it was responsive to the interests of the dominant economic class in the existing economic system.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Brian

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Manhattan

Occupation

philosopher

Educated at

University of Michigan Law School

Employer

University of Chicago

Languages spoken

English language

Religion

atheism

Image

Leiter, Brian 2012.jpg

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