Keith teacher

Keith Edward Lehrer (born January 10, 1936 ) is an American philosopher . He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona . He previously taught at the University of Rochester .

Life

Teacher received his PhD in philosophy from Brown University , where he conducted research with Richard Taylor . He mainly worked on epistemology , coherence theory , free will , Thomas Reid and aesthetics .

Teacher has written seven books on philosophy and over 170 articles. He became known for his defense of the coherence theory of justification. In 2005 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Teacher also worked as a painter.

Books

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

items

Love and Autonomy. In: R. Lamb (Ed.): Love Analyzed. Westview Press, 1997.
with Adrienne Lehrer: Semantic Fields and Vectors of Meaning. In: Lexical Semantics, Cognition and Philosophy. B. Lewandowska-Tomaszcyzyk, Lødz University Press, 1998.
Meaning, exemplarization and MEtarepresentation. In: Dan Sperber (Ed.): Metarepresentation. ( Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science ).
Acceptance and Belief Reconsidered. In: P. Engel (Ed.): Belief and Acceptance. Kluwer ( Philosophical Studies Series ).
Justification, Knowledge and Coherence. In: Knowledge.
Rationality. In: J. Greco, E. Sosa (Eds.): Guidebook to Epistemology.
Individualism versus Communitarianism: A Consensual Compromise. In: Proceedings of the Symposium at the World Congress of Philosophy. Boston, August 1998.
Reid, Hume and Common Sense. In Reid Studies.

Editing

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

Radu Bogdan (Ed.): Keith Teacher. Reidel, 1980.
John W. Bender (Eds.): The Current State of the Coherence Theory: Critical Essays on the Epistemic Theories of Keith Lehrer and Laurence Bonjour. Kluwer, 1989.
Johannes Brandl, Wolfgang Gombocz, Christian Piller (Eds.): Metamind, Knowledge, and Coherence: Essays on the Philosophy of Keith Lehrer. Rodopi, 1991.
Erik J.Olsson (Ed.): The Epistemology of Keith Lehrer (= Philosophical Studies Series. Volume 95). 2003.

↑ Erik J. Olsson: The epistemology of Keith Lehrer . Springer, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4020-1605-9 (accessed September 7, 2010).
↑ John W. Bender (Ed.): The Current State of the Coherence Theory: Critical Essays on the Epistemic Theories of Keith Lehrer and Laurence Bonjour. Kluwer, 1989
^ Keith Lehrer: An Empirical Disproof of Determinism. In: Keith Lehrer (ed.): Freedom and Determinism. Random House 1966
^ Lehrer's website about his pictures

personal data
SURNAME	Teacher, keith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Teacher, Keith Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American philosopher, painter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 10, 1936