Keith Lehrer

Keith Lehrer (Ph.D., Brown), Regents Professor of Philosophy, concentrates on epistemology,free will, rational consensus and Thomas Reid. He has been a fellow of the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, the School for Advanced Study, University of London, and the Research School, Australian National University. He has received citation and medal for distinguished achievement from Brown University and an honorary degree, Doctor of Philosophy, from Karl0Franzens University of Graz, Austria, where holds the position of Honorary Professor. He is past president of American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, and past Chair of the Board of Officers. He is former Editor-in-Chief and present Special Editions editor of Philosophical Studies and present co-editor of book series Philosophical Studies Series as well as co-editor of the Dimensions Series of Westview Press. His present research is focused on the coherence theory of knowledge. Lehrer is also a painter.

BOOKS

• Self Trust: A Study of Reason, Knowledge and Autonomy (Oxford, 1997)
• Philosophical Problems and Arguments: An Introduction (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, L��dz 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 The Work Of Keith Lehrer

• Keith Lehrer, edited by Radu Bogdan, Reidel, 1980.
• The Current State of the Coherence Thoery: 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.

Contact Professor Lehrer at:

Department of Philosophy
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0027

lehrer AT u DOT arizona DOT edu