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    Keith Lehrer

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy

    b. 1936

    Keith Lehrer is an American philosopher best known for his work in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and action theory. He developed the coherence theory of knowledge and has made influential contributions to debates on free will, self-trust, and rational consensus.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Developed a coherence theory of knowledge and justification

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    Authored influential works including 'Knowledge' (1974) and 'Theory of Knowledge' (1990)

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    Advanced critiques of the modal analysis of ability in free will debates

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    Contributed the Lehrer-Wagner model of rational consensus

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    Long tenure as Regents Professor at the University of Arizona

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    Analytic Philosophy

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    Truth & Knowledge2
    Free Will & Foreknowledge1
    Modality & Possibility1
    Perception
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    Skepticism

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    The principle of maximum entropy is a more cautious and broadly applicable version of the Principle of Indifference.

    Truth & Knowledge

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    The principle of maximum entropy is a more cautious and broadly applicable version of the Principle of Indifference.

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    Testimonial justification can be generated through a chain of testimony even when the transmitting testifier lacks justified belief

    Perception

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    Experiences with any kind of content (including nonconceptual) can stand in evidential relations to beliefs.

    Moral Responsibility

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    The modal analysis of ability (MA) must be rejected

    Modality & Possibility

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    The modal analysis of ability (MA) must be rejected

    Free Will & Foreknowledge

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    Disputes about free will ineluctably involve disputes about metaphysics and ethics.

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    Skepticism1
    Moral Responsibility1

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