Dr. Daniel Greco

Biography

Daniel Greco is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Yale University, where he serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies. His research primarily focuses on epistemology, and he has written extensively on skepticism and the relationship between first- and higher-order epistemic states, as well as the structure of epistemic norms. He is the author of "Idealization Epistemology: A Modest Modeling Approach," published by Oxford University Press in 2023, which defends the use of formal models drawn from economics and decision theory as central to epistemological inquiry. Greco’s work has been featured in leading philosophy journals, including Mind, Philosophical Review, Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and the Journal of Philosophy. His article “Significance Testing: Theory and Practice” won the Sir Karl Popper Prize, while “Iteration Fragmentation” received the Young Epistemologist Prize. Currently, he is the Epistemology Section Editor for Philosophy Compass Ergo and serves as a referee for numerous journals and presses in philosophy and adjacent disciplines. Greco earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, and his A.B. from Princeton University. Before joining Yale, he was a Bersoff Fellow at New York University and has actively contributed to graduate and undergraduate education at Yale, teaching a range of courses related to epistemology, philosophy of science, and the philosophical issues surrounding artificial intelligence.

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