1 Graduate Research Assistant, Auburn University, 602 Duncan Drive, Auburn University, AL 36849, [email protected] 2 Associate Professor, Auburn University, 602 Duncan Drive, Auburn University, AL 36849, [email protected] 3 Professor, Auburn University, 602 Duncan Drive, Auburn University, AL 36849, [email protected] 4 Project Leader, U.S. Forest Service, 521 Devall Drive, Auburn University,...

It is commonly held that knowledge is of distinctive value to us. The goal of this paper is to unpack and examine a possible defence of this claima defence which is at least implicit in recent work by some virtue epistemologiststo the effect that knowledge is distinctively valuable because, qua cognitive achievement, it has final value. 1. THE VALUE PROBLEM It is widely thought that knowledge...