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Duncan Pritchard is Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and the Director of Graduate Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is a leading figure in contemporary epistemology, with research interests spanning knowledge, skepticism, epistemic luck, virtue epistemology, and the nature of understanding and intellectual virtue. His books include Epistemic Luck (2005), Epistemological Disjunctivism (2012), Epistemic Angst (2016), and Epistemology (2018), and most recently Tempting Fate: A Philosophical Guide to Risk, Luck, and a Meaningful Life (2026).

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Duncan Pritchard is Chancellor's Professor of Philosophy and the Director of Graduate Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is a leading figure in contemporary epistemology, with research interests spanning knowledge, skepticism, epistemic luck, virtue epistemology, and the nature of understanding and intellectual virtue. His books include Epistemic Luck (2005), Epistemological Disjunctivism (2012), Epistemic Angst (2016), and Epistemology (2018), and most recently Tempting Fate: A Philosophical Guide to Risk, Luck, and a Meaningful Life (2026).

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