Matthew Jope

Matthew Jope is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His main area of research is epistemology, with a focus on closure, scepticism, trust, and risk. Previously, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Barcelona and the University of Glasgow, and before that, he was a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher at the University of Edinburgh where he completed his PhD. His work has appeared in the Journal of Philosophy , Synthese , and Erkenntnis . Duncan...See more

Matthew Jope is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His main area of research is epistemology, with a focus on closure, scepticism, trust, and risk. Previously, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Barcelona and the University of Glasgow, and before that, he was a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher at the University of Edinburgh where he completed his PhD. His work has appeared in the Journal of Philosophy , Synthese , and Erkenntnis . Duncan Pritchard FRSE is UC Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, and Director of the Center for Knowledge, Technology & Society . His main area of research is epistemology, and he has published widely in this area, including the monographs Epistemic Luck (2005), The Nature and Value of Knowledge (co-authored, 2010), Epistemological Disjunctivism (2012), and Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing (2015). His most recent book is Scepticism: A Very Short Introduction (2019). 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 delivered the annual Soochow Lectures in Philosophy in Taiwan. See less