Professor Stroud received the B.A. degree from the University of Toronto and the Ph.D. from Harvard University. He joined the Berkeley Philosophy Department in 1961, serving as its Chair from 1978 to 1981 and in several subsequent years. He won the Matchette Prize in 1979 for his book Hume (1977) and published The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism in 1984. He has held ACLS, Guggenheim, and NEH fellowships, and he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. In recent years he has delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford, the Tanner Lectures in Buenos Aires, the Gareth Evans Memorial Lecture at Oxford, and the Catedra Jose Gaos Lectures in Mexico City. In recent years, he has published The Quest for Reality and two collections of essays: Meaning, Understanding, and Practice, and Understanding Human Knowledge.

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