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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
Epistemological
Arts & Humanities
Virtue Epistemology
Arts & Humanities
Epistemic Luck
Arts & Humanities
Radical Scepticism
Arts & Humanities
Luck
Arts & Humanities
Epistemic Values
Arts & Humanities
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Research Outputs 2000 2019
The epistemology of cognitive enhancement
Carter, J. A. & Pritchard, D., Apr 2019, In : Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (United Kingdom). 44, 2, p. 220-242 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Cognitive Science
Bioethics
Cognition
Epistemology
Enhancement
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 › Research › peer-review
epistemology
cognitive ability
taxonomy
Luck
Defeat
Contextualism and radical scepticism
Pritchard, D., Nov 2018, In : Synthese. 195, 11, p. 4733–4750 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
purchase
Contextualism
Radical Scepticism
Underdetermination
Closure
Epistemic angst
Pritchard, D., Jan 2018, In : Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 96, 1, p. 70-90 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Epistemological
Angst
Paradox
Evaluation
External World
Extended epistemology
Pritchard, D., 2018, Extended epistemology. Carter, J. A., Clark, A., Kallestrup, J., Palermos, S. O. & Pritchard, D. (eds.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, p. 90-104 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
Luck
Epistemology
Cognitive Processes
Virtue Epistemology
Intellectual Virtues