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    The Moral Transcendental Argument against Skepticism
    In Cherie Braden, Rodrigo Borges & Branden Fitelson (eds.), Themes From Klein, Springer Verlag. 2019.
  •  168
    Précis of Virtues of the Mind (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (1): 169. 2000.
  •  295
    Epistemic authority
    Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 53 (3): 92-107. 2017.
    Contemporary defenders of autonomy and traditional defenders of authority generally assume that they have so little in common as to make it hopeless to attempt a dialogue on the defensibility of epistemic, moral, or religious authority. In this paper I argue that they are mistaken. Under the assumption that the ultimate authority over the self is the self, I defend authority in the realm of belief on the same grounds as Joseph Raz uses in his well-known defense of political authority in the trad…Read more
  •  77
    Exemplarist Moral Theory
    Oup Usa. 2017.
    In Exemplarist Moral Theory of Linda Zagzebski presents an original moral theory based on direct reference to exemplars of goodness, whom we identify through the emotion of admiration. Using examples of heroes, saints, and sages, she shows how narratives of exemplars and empirical work on the most admirable persons can be incorporated into the theory to serve both theoretical and practical purposes.
  •  49
    Emotion and Moral Judgment
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66 (1): 104-124. 2003.
    This paper argues that an emotion is a state of affectively perceiving its intentional object as falling under a “thick affective concept” A, a concept that combines cognitive and affective aspects in a way that cannot be pulled apart. For example, in a state of pity an object is seen as pitiful, where to see something as pitiful is to be in a state that is both cognitive and affective. One way of expressing an emotion is to assert that the intentional object of the emotion falls under the thick…Read more
  • Presidential Address delivered at the one hundred thirteenth Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Chicago, IL, on March 4, 2016.
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    Divine Motivation Theory
    Cambridge University Press. 2004.
    Widely regarded as one of the foremost figures in contemporary philosophy of religion, this book by Linda Zagzebski is a major contribution to ethical theory and theological ethics. At the core of the book lies a form of virtue theory based on the emotions. Quite distinct from deontological, consequentialist and teleological virtue theories, this one has a particular theological, indeed Christian, foundation. The theory helps to resolve philosophical problems and puzzles of various kinds: the di…Read more
  •  547
    Almost all theories of knowledge and justified belief employ moral concepts and forms of argument borrowed from moral theories, but none of them pay attention to the current renaissance in virtue ethics. This remarkable book is the first attempt to establish a theory of knowledge based on the model of virtue theory in ethics. The book develops the concept of an intellectual virtue, and then shows how the concept can be used to give an account of the major concepts in epistemology, including the …Read more
  • Natural Kinds
    Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles. 1979.
  • The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge
    International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 34 (2): 118-120. 1993.
    This original analysis examines the three leading traditional solutions to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human free will--those arising from Boethius, from Ockham, and from Molina. Though all three solutions are rejected in their best-known forms, three new solutions are proposed, and Zagzebski concludes that divine foreknowledge is compatible with human freedom. The discussion includes the relation between the foreknowledge dilemma and problems about the nature of time and the causal …Read more
  •  41
    On Epistemology
    Wadsworth. 2009.
    These books will prove valuable to philosophy teachers and their students as well as to other readers who share a general interest in philosophy.
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    Traf religijny
    Roczniki Filozoficzne 60 (2): 141-162. 2012.
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    Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will
    Religious Studies 21 (3): 279-298. 1985.
    If God knows everything he must know the future, and if he knows the future he must know the future acts of his creatures. But then his creatures must act as he knows they will act. How then can they be free? This dilemma has a long history in Christian philosophy and is now as hotly disputed as ever. The medieval scholastics were virtually unanimous in claiming both that God is omniscient and that humans have free will, though they disagreed in their accounts of how the two are compatible. With…Read more
  •  16
    Self-Trust and the Diversity of Religions
    Philosophic Exchange 36 (1). 2006.
    The diversity of religions poses two, distinct challenges for belief in a particular religion. The first challenge is based upon an epistemic egalitarianism, according to which all normal human beings are roughly equal in their ability to get knowledge. I argue that this challenge is based on some mistaken assumptions. The second challenge arises from our admiration of people of other faiths. I argue that this second challenge is very serious, since it is rooted in our trust of ourselves.
  • Alan G. Padgett, God, Eternity, and the Nature of Time (review)
    Philosophy in Review 13 179-181. 1993.
  •  7
    Hermes and Athena: Biblical Exegesis and Philosophical Theology
    Philosophical Books 36 (1): 74-77. 1995.
  •  7
    Perfect Goodness and Divine Motivation Theory
    Midwest Studies in Philosophy 21 (1): 296-309. 1997.
  •  16
    Epistemic Value Monism
    In John Greco (ed.), Ernest Sosa and His Critics, Blackwell. 2004.
    This chapter contains section titled: The Value Problem Sosa's Solution Epistemically Valuable False Beliefs Organic Unities Gettier.
  • William P. Alston, Perceiving God (review)
    Philosophy in Review 12 75-76. 1992.
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    Phronesis and Christian Belief
    In Godehard Brüntrup & Ronald K. Tacelli (eds.), The Rationality of Theism, Springer. pp. 177--194. 1999/2014.
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    Virtue in Ethics and Epistemology
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 71 1-17. 1997.
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    Divine Motivation Theory and Exemplarism
    European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 8 (3): 109-121. 2016.
    In this paper I summarize two versions of a new form of ethical theory in which all basic moral terms are defined by direct reference to exemplars of goodness. I call the Christian form Divine Motivation Theory in a book by the same name (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and the more general form I call Exemplarist Virtue Theory (Gifford Lectures 2015) or Exemplarist Moral Theory (forthcoming 2017, Oxford University Press). In the Christian form the supreme exemplar is God. In exemplarist virt…Read more
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    The inescapability of Gettier problems
    Philosophical Quarterly 44 (174): 65-73. 1994.