Lehrer received his PhD in philosophy from Brown University where he studied under Richard Taylor and Roderick Chisholm.
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 was a visiting professor.
(WNS) is used in many introductory philosophy courses as a coherent and readable introduction to the subject (1971 Philosophical Forum, vol.
In Wittgenstein’s view, both skepticism and its negation (realism) are epistemic nonsense cloaked in the well-formed syntax of ordinary language.
Lehrer on the other hand argues that philosophers have an “extraordinary” linguistic dispensation that allows them to meaningfully engage in epistemic nonsense (WNS p 289).