Duncan Pritchard FRSE is UC Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Knowledge, Technology & Society at the University of California Irvine, USA. His main research area is epistemology, and he has published widely in this field. His books include: Epistemic Luck (2005), The Nature and Value of Knowledge (with A. Millar and A. Haddock, 2010), Epistemological Disjunctivism (2012), Epistemic Angst (2016), Scepticism: A Very Short Introduction (2019), and Skepticism (with A. Coliva, Routledge, 2021).

Preface to the fifth edition How to use this book Part 1: What is knowledge? [...] preliminaries 2. The value of knowledge 3. Defining knowledge 4. The structure of knowledge 5. Rationality 6. Virtues and faculties Part 2: Where does knowledge come from? 7. Perception 8. Testimony and memory 9. A priority and inference 10. The problem of induction Part 3: What kinds of knowledge are there? 11. Scientific knowledge 12. Religious knowledge 13. Moral knowledge Part 4: What are the social dynamics of knowledge? 14. Disagreement 15. Ignorance and Epistemic Injustice Part 5: How can the theory of knowledge be applied to particular domains? 16. Technology 17. Education 18. Law 19. Politics Part 6: Do we have any knowledge? 20. Scepticism about other minds 21. Radical scepticism 22. Truth and objectivity. Further Reading Glossary of Terms Index