THE NATURE OF ABILITY AND THE PURPOSE OF KNOWLEDGE

By John Greco. 2007

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Normal Knowledge: Toward an Explanation-Based Theory of Knowledge (2018, background): “This assumption is inspired by what Greco (1999) calls ‘the problem of strange and fleeting processes’: the problem that certain belief forming processes, despite being reliable (producing safe and true beliefs), do not produce knowledge, as they are somehow deviant.”
• Knowledge and credit (2009, background): “In particular, ‘‘his success is grounded in his ability to discriminate good from bad testimony and is therefore attributable to him’’ ( Greco 2007, p. 63 ).”