Duncan Pritchard is the chancellor's

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philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and the director of graduate studies at the

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. 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 is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge. Also called "the theory of knowledge", it explores different types of knowledge, such as propositional knowledge about facts, practical knowle ...

. He has studied the problem of scepticism, the epistemic externalism/internalism distinction; the

rationality Rationality is the quality of being guided by or based on reason. 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

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; testimony; the relationship between epistemic and content externalism; virtue epistemology; epistemic value; modal epistemology; Wittgensteinian hinge epistemology; the history of scepticism; and epistemological contextualism.

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; 5th ed. 2023). *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 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 21st-century Scottish philosophers American epistemologists Living people Academics of the University of Edinburgh Year of birth missing (living people) Fellows_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh {{scotland-philosopher-stub