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John Greco Education:
Ph.D. in Philosophy, Brown University,
Providence, RI, 1989.
Awards: Books: Putting Skeptics in Their Place: The Nature of Skeptical Arguments and Their Role in Philosophical Inquiry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, co-edited with Ernest Sosa, (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999). Sosa and his Critics, (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004).
“Internalism, Externalism and Epistemic Evaluation,” in Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, Matthias Steup, ed., (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming). “Alston’s Epistemology of Perception,” in Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. Alston, Heather Battaly and Michael (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming). “Externalism and Skepticism,” in The Externalist Challenge: New Studies on Cognition and Intentionality, Richard Shantz, ed. (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, forthcoming). “Reid’s Reply to the Skeptic,” in The Cambridge Companion to Reid, Terence Cuneo and René van Woudenberg, eds., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). “Why not Reliabilism?”, in The Epistemology of Keith Lehrer, Erik J. Olsson, ed., (Dordrecht: Kluwer Press, 2004). “Motivations for Sosa’s Epistemology,” in Sosa and his Critics, John Greco, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004). “How to Preserve Your Virtue while Losing Your Perspective,” in Sosa and his Critics, John Greco, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004). “Knowledge as Credit for True Belief,” in Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology, Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). “Virtue and Luck, Epistemic and Otherwise,” Metaphilosophy 34, 3 (2003): 353-66. Reprinted in Virtues: Moral and Epistemic, Michael Brady and Duncan Pritchard, eds. (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming). “Precis of Putting Skeptics in Their Place” and “Further Thoughts on Agent Reliabilism,” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LXVI, 2 (2003). For a symposium on Putting Skeptics in Their Place, with Stewart Cohen, Douglas Geivett, Jonathan Kvanvig, Reza Lahroodi and Frederick Schmitt. “Virtues in Epistemology” in The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology, Paul Moser, ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). Reprinted in The Theory of Knowledge: Classic and Contemporary Readings, 3rd edition, Louis Pojman, ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2003). Reprinted in The Canon and Its Critcs, 2nd edition, Todd M. Furman and Mitchell Avila, eds. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003). Reprinted in Essential Knowledge, Steven Luper, ed. (New York: Longman Publishers, forthcoming). “How to Reid Moore,” Philosophical Quarterly 52, 209 (2002): 544-563. Reprinted in The Philosophy of Thomas Reid, John Haldane and Stephen Read, eds. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003). “Virtues and Rules in Epistemology,” in Virtue Epistemology: Essays on Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility, Abrol Fairweather and Linda Zagzebski, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001) “Virtue, Skepticism and Context,” in Knowledge, Belief and Character, Guy Axtell, ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000). Reprinted from Putting Skeptics in Their Place. "Scepticism and Epistemic Kinds," Philosophical Issues, 10, Skepticism (2000): 366-76. Translated and reprinted as “Escepticismo y Generos Epistemicos” Teorema XVIII, 3 (2000): 183-93. "Two Kinds of Intellectual Virtue," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LX, 1 (2000), pp. 179-184. “Skepticism and the Modern Ontology,” Insight and Inference, Michael Baur, ed., Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2000). "Agent Reliabilism," in Philosophical Perspectives, 13, Epistemology, James Tomberlin, ed. (Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Press, 1999). "Skepticism, Reliabilism, and Virtue Epistemology," Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Vol. 5. Epistemology, Richard Cobb-Stevens, ed. (Bowling Green: Philosophy Documentation Center, 1999).
“Virtue Epistemology,” The Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Fall 1999
Edition, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), available at: "What is Epistemology?", in John Greco and Ernest Sosa, eds. Blackwell Guide to Epistemology (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999). "Perception as Interpretation," in Texts and Their Interpretation, Michael Baur, ed., Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (New York: American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1999). "Response to John Haldane, ’Thomism and the Future of Catholic Philosophy’,” New Blackfriars 80, 938 (1999), pp. 181-185. "Foundationalism and Philosophy of Religion," in Philosophy of Religion: A Guide to the Subject, Brian Davies, ed. (London: Cassell and Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University, 1998), pp. 34-41. "The Force of Hume's Skepticism about Unobserved Matters of Fact," Journal of Philosophical Research xxiii (1998), pp. 289-306. "Catholics vs. Calvinists on Religious Knowledge," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly LXXI, 1 (1997), pp. 13-34. "Modern Ontology and the Problems of Epistemology," American Philosophical Quarterly 32, 3 (1995), pp. 241-251. "Reid's Critique of Berkeley and Hume: What's the Big Idea?," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LV, 2 (1995), pp. 279-296. "A Second Paradox Concerning Responsibility and Luck," Metaphilosophy 26, 1&2 (1995), pp. 81-96. "Virtue Epistemology and the Relevant Sense of "Relevant Possibility'," Southern Journal of Philosophy, XXXII, 1 (1994), pp. 61-77. "Virtues and Vices of Virtue Epistemology," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 23 (1993), pp. 413-432. Reprinted in Knowledge and Justification: Volume I, Ernest Sosa, ed., The International Research Library of Philosophy (Hampshire: Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1994). Reprinted in Epistemology: An Anthology, Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, eds. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000). "How to Beat a Skeptic without Begging the Question," Ratio VI (1993), pp. 1-15. "Is Natural Theology Necessary for Theistic Knowledge?", in Rational Faith: Catholic Responses to Reformed Epistemology, Linda Zagzebski, ed. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993), pp. 168-198. "Internalism and Epistemically Responsible Belief," Synthese 85 (1990), pp. 245-277. "Plantinga, Foundationalism, and the Charge of Self-referential Incoherence," Grazer Philosophische Studien 31 (1988), pp. 187-193. "A Reply to Stroud's Skeptic," Philosophical Papers XVI (1987), pp. 23-39.
“Edmund Gettier,” “Carl Ginet,” “Jaegwon Kim,” “Keith Lehrer,” “Sydney Shoemaker,” “Ernest Sosa,” all in The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Ernest LePore, ed. (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, forthcoming). Inference to the best explanation," The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 2nd edition, Robert Audi, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). "Virtue Epistemology," in Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement, Donald M. Borchert, ed., (New York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1995), pp. 581-583. "Internalism versus Externalism," in Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement, Donald M. Borchert, ed., (New York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1995), pp. 265-266.
"Virtue Epistemology," in Jonathan Dancy and
Ernest Sosa, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Epistemology (Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1992), pp. 520-522. Book reviews: Review of Richard Swinburne, Epistemic Justification, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001, in Faith and Philosophy, forthcoming. Review of N.M.L. Nathan, The Price of Doubt, London and New York: Routledge, 2001, in Mind 111, 441 (2002), pp. 149-52. Review of Alvin Plantinga, Warranted Christian Belief, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly LXXV, 3 (2001), pp. 461-6. Review of Robert Kirk, Relativism and Reality, London: Routledge, 1999, in Philosophical Quarterly (2000). Feature Review Article: William P Alston, A Realist Conception of Truth, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996, in International Philosophical Quarterly XXXVIII, 3 (1998), pp. 313-317. Review of Robert Fogelin, Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, in International Philosophical Quarterly, XXXVII, 1 (1997), pp. 115-119. Review of Susan Haack, Evidence and Inquiry, Oxford: Blackwell Press,1995, in International Philosophical Quarterly XXXVI, 2 (1996), pp. 231-234. Review of Vincent Brummer, Speaking of a Personal God, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, in Faith and Philosophy vol 12, no 1 (1995), pp. 148-153. Review of Alvin Plantinga, Warrant: The Current Debate and Warrant and Proper Function, both Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, in International Philosophical Quarterly, vol XXXV, no 1, (1995), pp. 109-112. Review of Jonathan Kvanvig, The Intellectual Virtues and the Life of the Mind, Rowman and Littlefield, 1992, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol LIV, no 4, (December 1994), pp. 973-976. Review of John Bender, ed., The Current State of the Coherence Theory, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989, in Nous, vol XXVII, no 1, (March 1993), pp. 111-113.
Review of Marie McGinn, Sense and Certainty,
New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989, in Philosophy and Phenomenological
Research, vol LI, no 3, (September 1991), pp. 689-693. Selected professional addresses and presentations: “Virtue Epistemology,” Series of lectures for an intensive seminar at the common graduate school of Finnish philosophy departments, University of Helsinki, March 2004. “Holding Defeat to the Fire,” Invited Symposium on Virtue Epistemology, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pasadena, March 2004. “A Different Sort of Contextualism,” West Point Military Academy, November 2003. “Skeptical Heuristics,” Keynote Address at a conference on Skepticism in Contemporary Epistemology, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, October 2003. “A Different Sort of Contextualism,” Conference on Contextualist Approaches to Epistemology, University of Mainz, Germany, September 2003. “God, Grace, and Gettier,” Society of Christian Philosophers session at the American Catholic Philosophical Association, November 2002. “Direct Realism and Acquaintance in Reid,” Reid Society session at the APA Eastern Division, December 2002. “Knowledge as Credit for True Belief,” Saint Louis University, spring 2002. “Knowledge as Credit for True Belief,” Syracuse University, spring 2002 “Two Kinds of Aristotelian in Contemporary Epistemology,” West Point Military Academy, fall 2001. “Two Kinds of Aristotelian in Contemporary Epistemology,” Biola University, Los Angeles, fall 2001. “How to Reid Moore,” Biola University, Los Angeles, fall 2001. “How to Reid Moore,” Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Seminar on Skepticism, Mexico City, August 2001. “Two Kinds of Aristotelian in Contemporary Epistemology,” Canadian Philosophical Association, Seminar on Aristotle in Contemporary Philosophy, Montreal, fall 2001. “Zagzebski on Knowledge and Intellectual Virtue,” Kingfisher Chair Inaugural Lectures in honor of Linda Zagzebski, University of Oklahoma, spring 2001. “Comments on Peter W. Ross, ‘Fixing the Reference of Color Terms’,” Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, December 2000. “Knowledge as Credit for True Belief,” Conference on Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology, University of Notre Dame, fall 2000. “An Argument Against Deontological Theories of Justification,” Conference on Virtue and Duty in Epistemology, Santa Barbara, fall 1999. “Skepticism, Inference and the Modern Ontology,” American Catholic Philosophical Association, Minneapolis, fall 1999. "Skepticism, Reliabilism, and Virtue Epistemology," World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, August 1998. "Epistemic Kinds and the Principle of Inferential Justification: Comments on Christopher Hookway," SOFIA Conference, Oviedo, Spain, July 1998. "Perception as Interpretation," American Catholic Philosophical Association, Pittsburg, March 1998. "What is Virtue Epistemology?" Introductory remarks at a special session on virtue epistemology, American Catholic Philosophical Association, Buffalo, NY, Spring 1997. "Skepticism and the Modern Self", Society of Christian Philosophers Regional Meeting, University of Dayton, Spring 1997. "Skepticism and Modern Ontology", Society of Christian Philosophers Regional Meeting, Calvin College, Spring 1997. "Hume's Skepticism about Unobserved Matters of Fact," New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association, Spring 1996. Response to Jonathan Kvanvig, "Why do Inquiring Minds Want to Know?", Wheaton College, Fall 1995. "Catholics vs. Calvinists on Religious Knowledge," American Catholic Philosophical Association Round Table at Fordham University, Spring 1995. "Catholics vs. Calvinists on Religious Knowledge," Society of Christian Philosophers Regional Meeting, Boulder, CO, Spring 1995. "Reid's Critique of Berkeley and Hume: What's the Big Idea?," American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, April 1994. "A Different Paradox Concerning Moral Responsibility and Luck," American Catholic Philosophical Association Round Table at Iona College, Fall 1993. "Reid's Critique of Berkeley and Hume: What's the Big Idea?," New Jersey Regional Philosophical Association, November 1993. "A Different Paradox Concerning Moral Responsibility and Luck," Georgetown University, April 1993. "Is Natural Theology Necessary for Theistic Knowledge?", American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, March 1992. "Is Natural Theology Necessary for Theistic Knowledge?", American Catholic Philosophical Association Round Table at St. Francis College, Fall 1991. "Skeptical Hypotheses and Relevant Alternatives," Society for the Discussion of Realism and Anti-realism at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, December 1990. "Three Paradoxes Concerning Moral Responsibility," Society for Values in Higher Education at Williams College, August 1990.
"Doxastic Voluntarism and Epistemic
Justification," American Catholic Philosophical Association Round Table at
Sienna College, Spring 1990. Selected service: Chair, Program Committee, Society of Christian Philosophers, APA Eastern Division, 2003. Program Committee, Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, 2000-2. Committee on Lectures, Publications and Research, American Philosophical Association, 1998-2001. Chair, APA Book Prize Selection Committee (sub-committee of Committee on Lectures, Publications and Research), 1998-2001. Executive Council, American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1999-2001. Search Committee for Fordham College Dean, 1998 Core Curriculum Committee, Fordham University, 1997-2001.
Acting Director of Graduate Studies, Philosophy
Department, Fordham University, summer and fall 1997. Professional societies:
American Catholic Philosophical Association,
American Philosophical Association, Hume Society, International Berkeley
Society, Philosophers in Jesuit Education, Society of Christian Philosophers.
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