Richard Pettigrew - Curriculum Vitae#

Academic positions:

• 2024 - 2025 John Locke Lecturer, University of Oxford and All Souls College, Oxford, UK
  
• 2021 - present Visiting Professor, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
  
• 2014 - present Professor of Philosophy, University of Bristol, UK
  
• 2012 - 2014 Reader in Philosophy, University of Bristol, UK
  
• 2011 - 2012 Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Bristol, UK
  

Education:

• 2004 - 2008 PhD in Mathematical Logic, University of Bristol, UK
  
• 2003 - 2004 MA in Philosophy, University of Bristol, UK
  
• 1999 - 2003 BA in Mathematics and Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK

Recent selected honours:

• Jacobsen Lecture, University of London, 2027.
  
• Annual Lecture in Culture and Technology, Northeastern University London, 2026
  
• John Locke Lecturer, University of Oxford and All Souls College, Oxford, 2025

Selected publications

(3 research monographs; 53 peer-reviewed research articles; 2 introductory texts; 2 edited volumes; 1 trade book. Google Scholar: citations 3,186; h-index 27.)

2025: 'Choosing how to choose' (with Catrin Campbell-Moore and Jason Konek) Theory and Decision (57 pages).

2025: 'What is the characteristic wrong of testimonial injustice?' Philosophical Quarterly 75(4): 1428-1451.

2022: Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (211 pages).

2020: 'An Accuracy-Dominance Argument for Conditionalization' (with R. A. Briggs) Noûs 54(1): 162-81.

2019: 'On the Expected Utility Objection to the Dutch Book Argument for Probabilism' Noûs 55(1): 23-38.

2019: Choosing for Changing Selves (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (253 pages).

2016: 'The population ethics of belief: in search of an epistemic Theory X' Noûs, 52(2): 336-72.

2016: Accuracy and the Laws of Credence (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (238 pages).

2016: 'Accuracy, Risk, and the Principle of Indifference' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 92(1): 35-59.

2015: 'What chance-credence norms should not be' Noûs 49(1): 177-96.

2012: 'Accuracy, Chance, and the Principal Principle' Philosophical Review 121(2): 241-75.

2010: 'An Objective Justification of Bayesianism II' (with Hannes Leitgeb) Philosophy of Science 77: 236-72.

2010: 'An Objective Justification of Bayesianism I' (with Hannes Leitgeb) Philosophy of Science 77: 201-35.

Research grants

• 2024 Leverhulme Research Grant, 36 months
  
• 2021 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, 12 months
  
• 2017 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship, 12 months
  
• 2013 ERC Starting Research Grant, 36 months
  
• 2011 AHRC Early Career Fellowship, 12 months
  
• 2008 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, 36 months

Editorial positions

• Managing Editor, Ergo, 2025-present; Area Editor, 2013-2025
  
• Subject Editor for Formal Epistemology, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2012-present
  
• Area Editor for Epistemology, Thought, 2023-present

Learned Societies

• Ordinary Member, Analysis Trust Committee, 2015-present.
  
• Ordinary Member, Committee of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, 2013-2016.