Duncan Pritchard

Era| Contemporary philosophy
Region| Western philosophy
School| Analytic philosophy
Institutions| University of California, Irvine

Main interests

| Epistemology

Duncan Pritchard FRSE is the chancellor's professor of philosophy and the director of graduate studies at the University of California, Irvine. He was previously professor of philosophy and chair in epistemology at the University of Edinburgh. His research is mainly in the field of 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.[1][2]

## Contents

* 1 Academic studies
* 2 Books
* 3 Awards
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Academic studies

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

## Books

The books of Pritchard:[3][4]

* Epistemology, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). [NB. 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). [The 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.[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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Duncan Pritchard". http://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/duncan-pritchard.
2. ↑ "Duncan Pritchard visiting Fall 2016 - Philosophy Department". http://philosophy.uconn.edu/2016/08/19/duncan-pritchard-visiting-fall-2016/.
3. ↑ "Duncan Pritchard visiting Fall 2016 - Philosophy Department". http://philosophy.uconn.edu/2016/08/19/duncan-pritchard-visiting-fall-2016/.
4. ↑ "Epistemic Angst". http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10636.html.
5. ↑ "Philosophy - Authoritative Research Guide - Oxford Bibliographies - obo". http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/philosophy.
6. ↑ "Duncan Pritchard - Edinburgh Research Explorer". http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/duncan-pritchard(3f3826b9-e53a-4413-850f-dd444d6ca802).html.

## 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

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Epistemology

Epistemologists|

* Thomas Aquinas
* Augustine of Hippo
* William Alston
* Robert Audi
* A. J. Ayer
* George Berkeley
* Laurence BonJour
* René Descartes
* John Dewey
* Fred Dretske
* Edmund Gettier
* Alvin Goldman
* Nelson Goodman
* Paul Grice
* David Hume
* Immanuel Kant
* Søren Kierkegaard
* Saul Kripke
* David Lewis
* John Locke
* G. E. Moore
* Robert Nozick
* Alvin Plantinga
* Plato
* Duncan Pritchard
* Hilary Putnam
* Thomas Reid
* Gilbert Ryle
* Susanna Siegel
* Socrates
* Ernest Sosa
* P. F. Strawson
* Willard Van Orman Quine
* Bertrand Russell
* Baruch Spinoza
* Timothy Williamson
* Ludwig Wittgenstein
* Nicholas Wolterstorff
* Vienna Circle

Theories|

* Coherentism
* Constructivist epistemology
* Contextualism
* Descriptive knowledge
* Determinism
* Empiricism
* Evolutionary epistemology
* Fallibilism
* Feminist epistemology
* Fideism
* Foundationalism
* Genetic epistemology
* Hierarchical epistemology
* Holism
* Infinitism
* Innatism
* Internalism and externalism
* Naïve realism
* Naturalized epistemology
* Phenomenalism
* Positivism
* Procedural knowledge
* Reductionism
* Reliabilism
* Representative realism
* Rationalism
* Skepticism
* Theory of forms
* Transcendental idealism
* Uniformitarianism

Concepts|

* A priori knowledge
* Analysis
* Analytic–synthetic distinction
* Belief
* Causality
* Common sense
* Exploratory thought
* Gettier problem
* Justification
* Knowledge
* Induction
* Objectivity
* Privileged access
* Problem of induction
* Problem of other minds
* Perception
* Proposition
* Regress argument
* Simplicity
* Speculative reason
* Truth
* more...

Related articles|

* Outline of epistemology
* Alethiology
* Faith and rationality
* Formal epistemology
* Meta-epistemology
* Philosophy of perception
* Philosophy of science
* Social epistemology

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