Patrick is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at St. Andrews University, and is an Associate Fellow of Arché and The Northern Institute for Philosophy. For 2003-4, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the AHRC funded project Vagueness: Its Nature and Logic, at Arché. In 2007-2008 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the ARC funded Epistemic Warrant project in the Philosophy Programme, RSSS, at The Australian National University. From September 2009 to August 2011, he will be a half-time Research Fellow at the Centre for Time, University of Sydney. He was the UConn Distinguished Visiting Professor for 2010. He was the UConn Distinguished Visiting Professor for 2010. He was also a network member for the European Philosophy Network on Perspectival Thoughts and Facts (PETAF), 2010-13.

Patrick was also the co-investigator (with Crispin Wright) for the Leverhulme Relativism and Rational Tolerance project based at the University of Aberdeen, 2012-15. Additionally, he is a member of the LOGOS research project Fallibility, Rational Belief, and Knowledge, (FARBEK) hosted by the University of Barcelona, 2014-18. He is also the PhilPapers editor for Truth.

Patrick received his PhD from St. Andrews in 2002. Before that he taught at the University of Bristol 2000-2002. His main research interests are in epistemology, the philosophy of logic, and the philosophy of language. He has a particular interest in vagueness, the liar paradox, indeterminacy, scepticism, contextualism, relativism, minimalism, realism, truth, self-knowledge, basic knowledge, discrimination, fallibilism, closure, second-order knowledge, externalism, assertion, belief, the nature of time, and the open future.

He is currently completing a book entitled: Knowledge - In Sickness and in Health.
Address: Department of Philosophy
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
Scotland
KY16 9AL
UK