Duncan Pritchard

Duncan Pritchard
Residence United States of America
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Analytic philosophy
Institutions University of California, Irvine; Edinburgh University
Main interests
 Epistemology

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 Edinburgh University. 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; the history of scepticism; and epistemological contextualism.[1][2]

Academic studies

He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of St Andrews.[1]

Books

The books of Pritchard:[3][4]

  • Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing
  • What is this Thing Called Philosophy?, (editor, Routledge, 2015). (Reviews)
  • Epistemology, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). [NB. This is the retitled second edition of Knowledge]. (Reviews)
  • Philosophy for Everyone, (editor, with M. Chrisman, Routledge, 2013). [Translations forthcoming in Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese & Spanish]
  • Knowledge, (Palgrave Macmillan, 1st ed. 2009). [Click here for a webcast I prepared about this textbook for students at Soochow University, Taiwan; note that the second edition of this texbook has been retitled Epistemology—see above]. (Reviews)
  • What is this Thing Called Knowledge?, (Routledge, 1st ed. 2006; 2nd ed. 2009; 3rd ed. 2013). [Translation forthcoming in Japanese]. (Reviews)
  • 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.[5] 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.[1][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Duncan Pritchard".
  2. ↑ "Duncan Pritchard visiting Fall 2016 - Philosophy Department".
  3. ↑ "Duncan Pritchard visiting Fall 2016 - Philosophy Department".
  4. ↑ "Epistemic Angst". Princeton University Press.
  5. ↑ "Philosophy - Authoritative Research Guide - Oxford Bibliographies - obo".
  6. ↑ "Duncan Pritchard - Edinburgh Research Explorer". www.research.ed.ac.uk.


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