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Epistemic Values

, 2020
This book collects twenty papers in epistemology by Linda Zagzebski, covering her entire career of more than twenty-five years. She is one of the founders of contemporary epistemology and is well-known for broadening the field and re-focusing it on ...
L. Zagzebski
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Introduction

Epistemic Values, 2020
This introduction gives an overview of Zagzebski’s work in epistemology during the last twenty-five years, introducing the papers included in the collection.
L. Zagzebski
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Intellectual Autonomy

Epistemic Values, 2020
This chapter describes a view of the self according to which autonomy properly applies in the intellectual domain on the same grounds as it applies in the practical domain. It explains why the power of reflective self-consciousness is more basic than any
L. Zagzebski
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Think Interview: Trusting Experts and Authorities

On Thinking
We live at a time when experts are increasingly viewed with distrust. Conservative Member of Parliament Michael Gove famously said that ‘The people of this country have had enough of experts.’ In this interview, philosopher Linda Zagzebski explores some ...
L. Zagzebski, Stephen Law
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Conscience and Conscientiousness in Linda Zagzebski’s Exemplarist Moral Theory

American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 2021
Linda Zagzebski’s exemplarist moral theory takes as its foundation “exemplars of goodness identified directly by the emotion of admiration.” This paper’s basic question is whether Zagzebski’s trust in the emotion of admiration is well-founded. In other words, do we have good reason to trust that those we admire on conscientious reflection warrant our ...
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Divine Consciousness of Human Consciousness

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
This paper goes through a series of theses about God and consciousness from the most certain to the least certain. I begin with the thesis that I am more certain of the existence of my currently occurring consciousness state than of anything else. I then
Linda Zagzebski
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Toward a Theory of Understanding

Varieties of Understanding, 2019
This chapter proposes that understanding is the grasp of structure. The structure of an object gives it unity and lets us see it as a single object. When we grasp an object’s structure, we understand the object. Understanding must simplify what it grasps,
L. Zagzebski
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Intellectual Motivation and the Good of Truth

Epistemic Values, 2003
This chapter is one of Zagzebski’s papers on the problem of what makes knowledge more valuable than mere true belief, otherwise known as the value problem.
L. Zagzebski
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Religious Knowledge and the Virtues of the Mind

, 2020
This chapter objects to three features of Reformed Epistemology, two of which are connected with its Calvinist inspiration and one of which was a feature of most contemporary epistemology at the time.
L. Zagzebski
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Intellectual Virtues

Epistemic Values, 2020
This chapter defends the view that intellectual virtues are deep and enduring acquired intellectual excellences, supported by the underlying idea in Exemplarist Moral Theory that excellences are admirable traits, and admirable traits are those that ...
L. Zagzebski
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