Keith Lehrer

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Keith Lehrer (born January 10, 1936) is the Regent's Professor emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Arizona with an affiliation with the University of Miami in Florida. He previously taught at the University of Rochester.

Lehrer received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Brown University where he studied under Richard Taylor. His research interests include epistemology, free will, rational consensus, Thomas Reid and, recently, aesthetics.

Lehrer is a former president of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association (APA) and also served as the APA executive director for a number of years.

Lehrer's work, "Why Not Skepticism?" is used in many introductory philosophy courses as a coherent and readable introduction to the subject. He has authored seven books on philosophical subjects, and over 170 scholarly articles. Lehrer is perhaps best known for his defense of the coherence theory of justification in epistemology.

Lehrer, and his wife Adrienne Lehrer, are also artists. Their work has been on display at the Vincent Gallery in Coconut Grove, Florida, concurrent with his stay at the University of Miami, where he is currently a visiting professor.

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Books

Self Trust: A Study of Reason, Knowledge and Autonomy (Oxford, 1997)
Philosophical Problems and Arguments: An ntroduction (Hackett, 1992, 4th ed.), with James
Cornman and George Pappas Metamind (Oxford, 1990)
Theory of Knowledge (Westview, 1990)
Thomas Reid (Routledge, 1989)
Rational Consensus in Science and Society: A Philosophical and Mathematical Study (D. Reidel, 1981), with Carl Wagner
Knowledge (Oxford, 1974)

Recent Articles

"Love and Autonomy," in a volume Love Analyzed, ed. R. Lamb, Westview Press, 1997.
"Semantic Fields and Vectors of Meaning," with Adrienne Lehrer, In Lexical Semantics, Cognition and Philosophy, B. Lewandowska-Tomaszcyzyk, Lødz University Press, 1998.
"Meaning, Exemplarization and MEtarepresentation," written for Metarepresentation, Dan Sperber ed., a volume of Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science.
"Acceptance and Belief Reconsidered," in a volume edited by P. Engel, Belief and Acceptance, to be published by Kluwer in Philosophical Studies Series.
"Justification, Knowledge and Coherence," to be published in Erkenntnis.
"Rationality," to be published in Guidebook to Epistemology, Blackwell's, edited by J. Greco and E. Sosa.
"Individualism versus Communitarianism: A Consensual Compromise," written for a symposium at the World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August, 1998, and to published in the proceedings.
"Reid, Hume and Common Sense," to be published in Reid Studies.

Books Edited

Knowledge, Teaching and Wisdom (Kluwer, forthcoming), with Jeannie Lum, Beverly Slichta and Nicholas Smith
Austrian Philosophy, Past & Present (Kluwer, in process), with Johanne Marek.
An Opened Curtain: A U.S.-Soviet Philosophical Summit (Westview, 199), with Ernest Sosa
Knowledge and Skepticism (Westview, 1989), with Marjorie Clay
Science and Ethics (Rodopi, 1988) Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays (Hackett, 1983), with Ronald Beanblossom
Analysis and Metaphysics: Essays in Honor of R.M. Chisholm (D. Reidel, 1975)
New Readings in Philosophical Analysis (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972), with Herbert Feigl and Wilfrid Sellars
Theory of Meaning (Prentice Hall, 1970) with Adrienne Lehrer
Freedom and Determinism (Random House, 1966).

Books About Keith Lehrer

Keith Lehrer, edited by Radu Bogdan, Reidel, 1980.
The Current State of the Coherence Theory: Critical Essays on the Epistemic Theories of Keith Lehrer and Laurence Bonjour, edited by John W. Bender, Kluwer, 1989.
Metamind, Knowledge, and Coherence: Essays on the Philosophy of Keith Lehrer, edited by Johannes Brandl, Wolfgang Gombocz, and Christian Piller, Rodopi, 1991.