If knowledge is only valuable because it produces pleasure, then knowledge-without-pleasure has zero value, which contradicts strong intuitions defended by G.E. Moore in Principia Ethica.
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(Callicott (1980) in contrast to individualistic environmental ethics)
Value possessed in and of itself, not derived from contribution to something else; in Callicott's holism, attributed exclusively to the biotic community as a whole rather than to individual organisms
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.