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Personal profile
Biography
Duncan Pritchard FRSE is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, a post he has held since 2007. Prior to taking up this position, he was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He works mainly in epistemology, and has published widely in this area. In 2007 he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize. In 2011 he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2013 he will deliver the annual Soochow Lectures in Philosophy in Taipei.
Research interests
Duncan's research is mainly in epistemology with particular focus on the following issues: 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.
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Epistemology
Arts & Humanities
Skepticism
Arts & Humanities
Epistemic Luck
Arts & Humanities
Epistemological
Arts & Humanities
Virtue Epistemology
Arts & Humanities
Radical Scepticism
Arts & Humanities
Luck
Arts & Humanities
Epistemic Values
Arts & Humanities
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Research Output 2000 2018
Anti-luck virtue epistemology and epistemic defeat
Pritchard, D. Jul 2018 In : Synthese. 195, 7, p. 3065–3077 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
epistemology
cognitive ability
taxonomy
Luck
Defeat
Epistemic angst
Pritchard, D. Jan 2018 In : Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 96, 1, p. 70-90 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Epistemological
Angst
Paradox
Evaluation
External World
Extended virtue epistemology
Pritchard, D. 2018 In : Inquiry (United Kingdom). 61, 5-6, p. 632-647 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Cognition
Education
Propositional epistemic luck, epistemic risk, and epistemic justification
Bondy, P. & Pritchard, D. Sep 2018 In : Synthese. 195, 9, p. 3811-3820 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
evidence
Epistemic Justification
Epistemic Luck
Cognitive bias, scepticism and understanding
Adam Carter, J. & Pritchard, D. 2017 Explaining understanding: new perspectives from epistemology and philosophy of science. Grimm, S. R., Baumberger, C. & Ammon, S. (eds.). New York ; London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, p. 272-292 21 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter