The value of knowledge

• Main Author: RYAN, Shane
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: argument; rejection; Greco; virtue epistemology; knowledge; final value; good life; pointless truth; cheaply gained; disvalue; cost; Epistemology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3717
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper I make the case that we should reject an argument that even knowledge of pointless truths has pro tanto final value. The argument draws on Greco’s virtue epistemological account of knowledge, according to which knowledge is an achievement and achievements have final value in virtue of...