In this essay I will do four things. ... Exemplarist Moral Theory By Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski Oxford University Press, 2017, xiv + 274 pp. Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski is the George Lynn Cross Research Professor of Philosophy and Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at the University of Oklahoma. The tripartite view Propositional knowledge is defined as justified true belief: S knows that p if and only if: S is justified in believing that p, p is true and In this case the problem arises because in spite of the fact that you have done everything to reach the truth from your point of view and everything In fact, Zagzebski argues, we can supply definitions of all of the central concepts of moral philosophy in the same way, by reference to what she calls ‘exemplars’. A virtue is ‘a trait we admire in an exemplar’; a good motive is ‘a motive we admire in an exemplar’ and so on (p. 21). Linda Zagzebski’s treatment of the intellectual virtues in her book Virtues of the Mind (1996) is one of the most thoroughly and systematically developed in the literature. She provides a formula for constructing such Gettier cases to defeat these definitions: Philosopher Linda Zagzebski argues that definitions of knowledge of the kind we have looked at so far (i.e. from Stanford University, her M.A. Ernest Sosa. Having read other comparable books on the topic by now, I find that Zagzebski's work still surpasses other ones, particularly thanks to its practical use, e.g. Zagzebski’s notion is more high-octane than Locke’s. Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (born 1946) is an American philosopher.She is a George Lynn Cross Research Professor, and Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at the University of Oklahoma.She writes in the areas of epistemology, philosophy of religion, and virtue theory.She was (2015-2016) president of the American Philosophical Association Central Division, … Virtuous motivation that results with an act can result from epistemic motives. Linda Zagzebski (PhD UCLA) is George Lynn Cross Research Professor and Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics department at the University of Oklahoma. In Section 2 I will describe Zagzebski’s use of one of these notions, the non-Lockean one, to ground the reasonableness of … Book symposium on Virtues of the Mind in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (January), pp. Linda Zagzebski is George Lynn Cross Research Professor and Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. Thanks to goodreads users I am lucky to have stumbled upon this introduction to the philosophy of religion. She was born in Southern California, educated at Stanford (B.A. I have friends who are philosophy PhDs and they get very annoyed when I even suggest the notion that someone can have merit as a "philosopher" without traditional academic training. Zagzebski, Linda. Her work focuses on epistemology, philosophy of religion, virtue ethics, and the metaphysics of fatalism. She is author of The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge (1991), Virtues of the Mind (1996), and many articles on philosophy of religion, epistemology, and ethics. The nature of definition (including Linda Zagzebski) and how propositional knowledge may be analysed/defined. from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles. Exemplarist Moral Theory. Linda Zagzebski is Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, University of Oklahoma and formerly Professor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA. Search for more papers by this author. Linda Zagzebski thought of Pascal Wager Posted on November 30, 2017 December 7, 2017 by understandingscienceweb Linda Zagzebski considers three objections to the argument of Pascal’s Wager in the second part of the lecture in my philosophy class considering them to be the many God’s objection, Wager’s presupposes a low view of God and religious faith and we can’t … I dont understand Linda Zagzebski's The Inescapability of Gettier Problems. for parents. Igor Gasparov - 2017 - Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 53 (3):108-122. Rational Faith: Catholic Responses to Reformed Epistemology (LIBRARY OF RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY) Hardcover – May 1, 1993 by Linda Zagzebski (Editor) See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions Search for more papers by this author. Professor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Linda Zagzebski - 2013 - Res Philosophica 90 (2):293-306. The Divine command theory (also known as theological voluntarism) [1] [2] is a meta-ethical theory which proposes that an action’s status as morally good is equivalent to whether it is commanded by God. "Linda Zagzebski has produced a very impressive, historically-informed introduction to the philosophy of religion. Dr. Zagzebski is George Lynn Cross Research Professor, and Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, at the University of Oklahoma. Linda Zagzebski is Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics and George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma. First published: 18 August 2017. Readings in Philosophy of Religion by Linda Zagzebski, 9781405180917, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. She specializes in virtue epistemology, virtue ethics, philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, … Linda Zagzebski is George Lynn Cross Research Professor and Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at the University of Oklahoma. Epistemic authority and autonomy of the epistemic subject. 169–219. 4 reviews Presenting the background, development, and current state of affairs in EPISTEMOLOGY, this title-a volume in the Wadsworth Philosophy Topics Series--provides a concise introduction to this pertinent topic of contemporary philosophical interest. ), and UCLA (Ph.D.). Your belief'Smith owns a Ford or Brown is in Barcelona' is true and justified, but it is hardly the case that you know it. In Section 1 I will describe two kinds or notions of authority or at least two usages of the word ‘authority’. 288 pp. Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus, 1996, Virtues of the Mind: An Inquiry into the Nature of Virtue and the Ethical Foundations of Knowledge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Zagzebski defines knowledge as, “cognitive contact with reality arising out of acts of intellectual virtue.” Arriving to moral and intellectual virtues is based on circumstance and motivation. 66 LINDA ZAGZEBSKI by chance in Barcelona. In this book Linda Zagzebski presents an original moral theory based on direct reference to exemplars of goodness, modeled on the Putnam-Kripke theory which revolutionized semantics in the seventies. In Virtues of the Mind I object to process reliabilism on the grounds that it does not explain the good of knowledge in addition to the good of true belief. ‘true belief + some third condition’) will always fall victim to Gettier-style cases. Virtues are properties that add to the characteristics of a person. Cloth, $69.00--Linda Zagzebski's aim in this book is to construct a comprehensive and novel ethical theory "out of a single point of origin." Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski, Loyola Marymount University, California. Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski is Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion & Ethics and George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma. Linda Zagzebski. –––, 1999, “What is Knowledge?” in The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology , John Greco and … Department of Philosophy, University of Oklahoma, 455 W. Lindsey Room 605, Norman, OK 73019, USA lzagzebski@ou.edu. Dr. Zagzebski works primarily in philosophy of religion, epistemology, and ethics. ), the University of California at Berkeley (M.A. Search for more papers by this author. Linda Zagzebski is the George Lynn Cross Research Professor of Philosophy and Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at the University of Oklahoma. This doc-toral thesis looks to critique and continue the path-breaking work underta-ken by Linda Zagzebski in the Anglo-American literature on the virtues and rationality. Includes papers by William Alston, John Greco, Amelie Rorty, Jonathan Kvanvig, and Hilary Kornblith and my responses Book Editor(s): John Greco. 2000a. Zagzebski is unquestionably a virtue responsibilist, as she clearly thinks of intellectual virtues as traits of character. Professor Linda Zagzebski’s wonderful book, Epistemic Authority, revolves around the thesis that the legitimacy of epistemic authority can be shown to result, in the following way, from a sober understanding of what it means to be an individual: first, one must trust one’s epistemic skills in attempts to get at the truth when one is most conscientious. "Linda Zagzebski has produced a very impressive, historically-informed introduction to the philosophy of religion. She received her B.A. The theory asserts that what is moral is determined by what God commands, and that for a person to be moral is to follow his commands. She is the past President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (1996-7) and of the Society of Christian Philosophers (2004-7), and current President of the American Philosophical Association Central Division (2015-16). ZAGZEBSKI, Linda Trinkaus. tation of Thomistic philosophy within the framework of contemporary problems of knowledge would be at the epistemic cutting edge.