ABSTRACT
Recent literature in religious epistemology has overlooked a significant debate in mainstream epistemology. In short, theories in religious epistemology have failed to consider the value problem. This paper, then, hopes to rectify this omission by arguing that one of the most influential accounts of religious epistemology – Reformed epistemology – fails to adequately account for the final value of knowledge. Reformed epistemology fails to account for the final value of knowledge in that it is susceptible to the same problems that all reliabilist accounts of knowledge face; namely, the swamping problem. This problem threatens to undermine any attempt to account for the value of knowledge over and above the value of true belief for, as it stands, the swamping problem claims that there is no real difference in value between true belief and knowledge. In the end, an agent is epistemically no better off with knowledge than with mere true belief.
