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Daniel Greco is Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. His research focuses primarily on epistemology, where he has written extensively on skepticism, the relationship between first- and higher-order epistemic states, and the structure of epistemic norms. He is the author of Idealization in Epistemology: A Modest Modeling Approach (Oxford University Press, 2023), which defends the use of formal models—drawing on tools from economics and decision theory—as central to epistemological inquiry.
Greco’s work has appeared in leading philosophy journals, including Mind, The Philosophical Review, Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and The Journal of Philosophy. His article “Significance Testing in Theory and Practice” received the Sir Karl Popper Prize, and his “Iteration and Fragmentation” won the Young Epistemologist Prize.
He is currently Epistemology Section Editor for Philosophy Compass and for Ergo, and has served as a referee for numerous journals, presses, and granting agencies across philosophy and adjacent disciplines.
Greco earned his Ph.D. from MIT, his M.Phil. from Cambridge, and his A.B. from Princeton. Before joining Yale’s faculty, he was a Bersoff Fellow at NYU. At Yale, he has played an active role in both graduate and undergraduate education, including as Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy, and has taught courses ranging from epistemology and philosophy of science to philosophical issues in AI, as well as being a regular instructor in Yale’s directed studies program.