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Christoph Kelp is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and the Director of the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre. He serves on the steering committees of the British Society for Theory of Knowledge, the European Epistemology Network, and the Social Epistemology Network, and is a member of the editorial board for Philosophical Quarterly. His publications include 'Nature Normativity Defeat' (Cambridge University Press, 2023), 'Knowledge, Understanding' (Oxford University Press, 2021), and 'Good Thinking: Knowledge Virtue Epistemology' (Routledge, 2018). Kelp's research interests center on Epistemology, exploring key themes such as epistemic justification, social epistemology, the relationship between inquiry and knowledge, and ethical concepts like trust and moral understanding. He has received recognition for his work, including the Young Epistemologist Prize in 2017 for his paper 'Inquiry Transmission Knowledge'. Kelp is actively involved in funded research projects examining the dimensions of wellbeing and virtue epistemology, and has collaborated on papers related to trust and epistemic inquiry.