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John Greco on the Nature and Value of Knowledge

Pamela Ann N. Jose

Discipline: Philosophy

 

Abstract:

This paper discusses the tenability of John Greco’s solution to the problems of the nature and value of knowledge in his book, Achieving knowledge (2010). Divided into two parts, the discussion (1) specifies how both problems have developed until the current period and (2) determines whether Greco, with his virtue reliabilism, supplies an adequate solution to both problems. I take the view that regardless of Greco’s adoption of a contextualist semantics, his epistemic theory remains inadequate so long as it is unable to specify the extent to which a person’s abilities can be appropriately involved in the attainment of knowledge or any success from ability.