Brian Leiter : Works in Progress

Books

Why Tolerate Religion?  A book examining the nature of toleration and the nature of religion to see whether there is any principled reason for singling out religion (as against other matters of conscience) for toleration.

Nietzsche’s Moral Psychology: An Exposition and Defense. Monograph examining the key issues in Nietzsche’s moral psychology, including: the sources and nature of moral judgments; freedom and responsibility; the explanation of action; the contents of the mind; the will. Under contract with Oxford University Press.

Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Law, Volume 2. Co-edited with Leslie Green.  Contributors to include: Samantha Besson, Bruno Celano, Luís Duarte d’Almeida, Jeffrey Goldsworthy, Mark Greenberg, Matthew Kramer, Stephen Perry, Gerald Postema, Hanoch Sheinman,  C.L. Ten.

Articles and Reviews

“Moral Skepticism and Moral Disagreement in Nietzsche.”

An essay for vol. 12 of Estudios Nietzsche (journal of the Spanish Society for the Study of Nietzsche) on the general theme of “Nietzsche and Morality” (this will be translated into Spanish)—to appear in 2012.

“The Boundaries of the Moral (and Legal) Community.”

“Legal Theory,” for H. Cappelen, T. Gendler, & J. Hawthorne (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology (forthcoming 2013).

 “Nietzsche,” for M. Forster & K. Gjesdal (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth Century German Philosophy (forthcoming 2013).