Job de GrefteAssistant Professor | Business Ethics, Sustainability, and Finance | University of Groningen

Business Ethics, Finance & Sustainability

2025 Sustainable finance, biodiversity, and greenwashing: how contested values, metrics, and causation facilitate information distortion, information omission, and information pollution Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 74, 101522 Job de Grefte and Boudewijn de Bruin

Biodiversity finance aims to support ecosystem and habitat preservation but faces significant challenges of greenwashing. This article examines how contested values, measurement problems, and disputed causal claims create distinctive routes for misinformation and misrepresentation in biodiversity finance.

Collaborative & Empirical Work

2024 Structural Validity Evidence for the Oxford Utilitarianism Scale Across 15 Languages Psychological Test Adaptation and Development, 5(1), 175-191 with Briana Oshiro and colleagues in the Psychological Science Accelerator collaboration

This large-scale study investigates the structural validity of translated versions of the Oxford Utilitarianism Scale across fifteen languages, combining psychometric analysis with version-specific validity reports.

2022 Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 880-895 with the Psychological Science Accelerator collaboration

This large collaborative study examines how situational factors affect moral judgement across culturally diverse populations, showing both cross-cultural variation and recurrent structural patterns in trolley-dilemma responses.

Epistemology

2023 Knowledge as Justified True Belief Erkenntnis, 88(2), 531-549 Job de Grefte

This paper defends a version of the tripartite analysis of knowledge by arguing that Gettier cases do not refute it when justification is understood in anti-luck terms.

2021 The causal theory of knowledge revisited: An interventionist approach Ratio, 34(3), 193-202 Job de Grefte and Alexander Gebharter

With Alexander Gebharter, I revisit Goldman’s causal theory of knowledge and argue that an interventionist account of causation can overcome familiar luck-based objections.

2020 Towards a Hybrid Account of Luck Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 101(2), 240-255 Job de Grefte

This paper argues that modal and probabilistic accounts of luck should be combined in order to explain more adequately the different ways in which luck comes in degrees.

2019 Pritchard Versus Pritchard on Luck Metaphilosophy, 50(1-2), 3-15 Job de Grefte

This paper compares two versions of Duncan Pritchard’s modal account of luck and argues that the earlier view offers a better account of degrees of luck, significance, and the subjective dimension of lucky events.

2018 Epistemic justification and epistemic luck Synthese, 195(9), 3821-3836 Job de Grefte

This article examines how different forms of epistemic luck relate to internalist and externalist theories of justification, and argues that the distinction between them can be clarified in terms of their compatibility with luck.

Philosophy of Science

2025 Comments on Norton’s The Large-Scale Structure of Inductive Inference Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 56(4), 647-650 Job de Grefte

A short symposium contribution on Norton’s account of inductive inference, focused on what the material theory implies for epistemology and for the status of the problem of induction.

2020 Epistemic benefits of the material theory of induction Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 84, 99-105 Job de Grefte

This paper critically evaluates Norton’s claim that the material theory of induction dissolves the problem of induction, arguing that its epistemic advantages are narrower than they may first appear.

Argumentation Theory

2023 The Persistent Interlocutor Argumentation, 37(1), 53-68 Job de Grefte

I reconsider the epistemic relevance of the persistent interlocutor and argue that existing views fail to capture its role adequately in argumentative practice. The paper develops a safer and more precise account of that role.

2022 A Modal Criterion for Epistemic Argumentation Informal Logic, 42(2), 389-415 Job de Grefte

This article applies the modal norm of safety to epistemic argumentation and uses it to develop a new perspective on argumentative relevance and on the relation between dialectical and epistemic norms.

Other

2020 "Argumentation, Dissent and Luck" Proceedings of the European Conference on Argumentation 2019 Job de Grefte

A conference paper examining the relationship between argumentation, dissent, and luck in epistemic assessment, arguing that luck-based considerations bear on what counts as a good argumentative response to a persistent interlocutor.

2017 Epistemic Justification & Luck PhD Thesis, University of Groningen Job de Grefte

Doctoral dissertation examining the relationship between epistemic justification and various forms of epistemic luck. Supervised by prof. dr. C. Dutilh-Novaes and prof. dr. A.J.M. Peijnenburg.