John Greco (born April 24, 1961) is the Robert L. McDevitt and Catherine H. McDevitt Professor of Philosophy at
Georgetown University. Before coming to Georgetown, Greco taught at
Saint Louis University
Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private Jesuit research university with campuses in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, and Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1818 by Louis William Valentine DuBourg, it is the oldest university west of the Mississip ...
.
Greco received his A.B. from
Georgetown University in 1983 and completed his Ph.D. at
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
in 1989 under
Ernest Sosa. His research interests are in
epistemology and
metaphysics and he has published widely on virtue epistemology, epistemic normativity, skepticism, and Thomas Reid. From 2013 until 2020, he was the Editor of
American Philosophical Quarterly
The ''American Philosophical Quarterly'' (APQ) is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering philosophy. It was established in 1964 by Nicholas Rescher and is published quarterly by University of Illinois Press under license with North American Phil ...
.
[''The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology'' 999, 2004 back cover.] For 2013–15, together with
Eleonore Stump, he held a $3.3 million grant from the
John Templeton Foundation for a project on intellectual humility.
References
1961 births
Living people
Epistemologists
American philosophers
Catholic philosophers
Brown University alumni
Saint Louis University faculty
Fordham University faculty
Georgetown University faculty
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