Duncan Pritchard is the chancellor's

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professo ...

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. ...

and the director of graduate studies at the

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and p ...

. He was previously professor of philosophy and chair in epistemology at the

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. His research is mainly in the field of

epistemology Epistemology (; ), or the theory of knowledge, is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge. Epistemology is considered a major subfield of philosophy, along with other major subfields such as ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Epi ...

. He has studied the problem of

scepticism Skepticism, also spelled scepticism, is a questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma. For example, if a person is skeptical about claims made by their government about an ongoing war then the p ...

, the epistemic externalism/internalism distinction; the

rationality Rationality is the quality of being guided by or based on reasons. In this regard, a person acts rationally if they have a good reason for what they do or a belief is rational if it is based on strong evidence. This quality can apply to an ab ...

of religious

belief A belief is an attitude that something is the case, or that some proposition is true. In epistemology, philosophers use the term "belief" to refer to attitudes about the world which can be either true or false. To believe something is to tak ...

; testimony; the relationship between epistemic and content

externalism Externalism is a group of positions in the philosophy of mind which argues that the conscious mind is not only the result of what is going on inside the nervous system (or the brain), but also what ''occurs'' or ''exists'' outside the subject. It i ...

; virtue epistemology; epistemic value; modal epistemology; Wittgensteinian hinge epistemology; the history of scepticism; and epistemological

contextualism Contextualism, also known as epistemic contextualism, is a family of views in philosophy which emphasize the ''context'' in which an action, utterance, or expression occurs. Proponents of contextualism argue that, in some important respect, the a ...

Academic studies

He received his PhD in philosophy from the

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Books

The books of Pritchard: *Epistemology, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). B. This is the retitled second edition of Knowledge *Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing (Princeton University Press, 2015). *What is this Thing Called Philosophy?, (editor, Routledge, 2015). *Philosophy for Everyone, (editor, with M. Chrisman, Routledge, 2013). *Epistemological Disjunctivism (Oxford University Press, 2012). *Knowledge, (Palgrave Macmillan, 1st ed. 2009). he second edition of this textbook has been retitled Epistemology—see above *What is this Thing Called Knowledge?, (Routledge, 1st ed. 2006; 2nd ed. 2009; 3rd ed. 2013; 4th ed. 2018). *Epistemology A-Z (with M. Blaauw), (Edinburgh UP/Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

Awards

He received the Philip Leverhulme Prize for his research in philosophy in 2007. He received a chair in epistemology in 2007. He was also elected to a Fellowship of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established i ...

in 2011 for his works in philosophy.

References

External links

*http://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/duncan-pritchard *http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/duncan-pritchard(3f3826b9-e53a-4413-850f-dd444d6ca802).html *http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/philosophy *http://philosophy.uconn.edu/2016/08/19/duncan-pritchard-visiting-fall-2016 *http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10636.html Scottish philosophers Epistemologists Living people Academics of the University of Edinburgh Year of birth missing (living people) {{Europe-philosopher-stub