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Keith Lehrer

Regents Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus
Ph.D., Brown University, 1960
Metaphysics, Epistemology

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.

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)

Selected Publications

Recent Publications 2004- Include:
  •  "Representation in Painting and Consciousness," Philosophical Studies, vol. 117, nos.1-2, 2004, 1-14
  • “Freedom and the Power of Preference,” in Freedom and Determinism, J. K. Campbell, M. O'Rourke, and D. Shier eds., Bradford, MIT, 2004, 47-69.
  • "Analysis and Experience in Art," in Experience and Analysis. Proceedings of the 27th International Wittgenstein Symposium.   Maria E. Reicher, Johann C. Marek (eds.) 8th to 14th August 2004. Kirchberg am Wechsel (Austria) (Schriftenreihe der Wittgenstein-Gesellschaft 34). Wien: oebv & hpt, 2005, 357-362.
  • " Consciousness, Representation and Knowledge," in Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness, U. Kriegel and K. Williford eds., MIT 2006, 409-420.
  • “Coherence and the Truth Connection,” Erkenntnis,   2006, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 413-423.
  • "Testimony and Trustworthiness," in The Epistemology of Testimony, Jennifer Lackey and Ernest Sosa, eds., Oxford, 2006, 145-160.
  • "Knowing Content in the Visual Arts", in Knowing Art,edited by D. Lopes and M. Kieran, Springer, 2006, 1-18.
  •  “Wine, Aesthetics and Critical Communication,” with Adrienne Lehrer in Wine and Philosophy: A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking, Fritz Allhoff, ed., Blackwells, 2007.
  •  “Death and Aesthetics,” in Death And Anti-Death, Volume 4: Twenty Years After De Beauvoir, Thirty Years After Heidegger, Charles Tandy, ed., Rea, 2007, 
  • “Consensus in Science and Art,” Annual Vienna Circle Lecture, Vienna Circle Yearbook, Springer, 2007, 159-172.  
  • “Loop Theory: Knowledge, Art and Autonomy” John Dewey Lecture, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 81:2, November, 2007, 121-136

 

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).