Duncan Pritchard
Duncan Pritchard is the Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and the Director of Graduate Studies at the University of California, Irvine and a professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His field of research is epistemology. He has studied the problem of scepticism, the epistemic externalism/internalism distinction; the rationality of religious belief; testimony; the relationship between epistemic and content externalism; virtue epistemology; epistemic value; modal epistemology; Wittgensteinian hinge epistemology; the history of scepticism; and epistemological contextualism.He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of St Andrews.Books
The books of Pritchard:
- Epistemology,. .
- Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing.
- What is this Thing Called Philosophy?,.
- Philosophy for Everyone,.
- Epistemological Disjunctivism.
- Knowledge,. .
- What is this Thing Called Knowledge?,.
- Epistemology A-Z,
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.
