{"id":7675,"date":"2014-09-24T12:57:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T12:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/09\/24\/brian-leiter-recent-developments-and-further-insight-into-his-character\/"},"modified":"2014-09-24T12:57:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T12:57:31","slug":"brian-leiter-recent-developments-and-further-insight-into-his-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/09\/24\/brian-leiter-recent-developments-and-further-insight-into-his-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Leiter: Recent Developments and Further Insight into His Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb078bf789970d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leiter-537x350\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb078bf789970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01bb078bf789970d-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Leiter-537x350\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I thank my readers for keeping me apprised of these unsavory matters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Recent manifestations of Leiter&#39;s thuggish nature are documented in a <a href=\"https:\/\/files.nyu.edu\/dv26\/public\/Statement_of_Concern.html\" target=\"_self\">Statement of Concern <\/a>by Sally Haslanger and David Velleman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Further information and hyperlinks at <em>The Daily Nous<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailynous.com\/2014\/09\/24\/should-the-philosophical-gourmet-report-continue\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dailynous.com\/2014\/07\/02\/insults-obnoxiousness\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">More on the Ladderman in <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/brian-leiter\/\" target=\"_self\">Brian Leiter<\/a>.&#0160; 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Recent manifestations of Leiter&#39;s thuggish nature are documented in a Statement of Concern by Sally Haslanger and David Velleman. Further information and hyperlinks at The Daily Nous, here and here. More on the Ladderman in Brian Leiter.&#0160; (As luck would have it, this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/09\/24\/brian-leiter-recent-developments-and-further-insight-into-his-character\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brian Leiter: Recent Developments and Further Insight into His Character&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-brian-leiter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}