Linda Zagzebski is 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. Her most recent book, Epistemic Authority: A Theory of Trust, Authority, and Autonomy in Belief (Oxford University Press, 2012) was based on her Wilde Lectures at Oxford University (2010), Kaminski Lectures at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (2011), and Olaus Petri Lectures at the University of Uppsala (2011). The book was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship. She will give the Gifford Lec…
Linda Zagzebski is 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. Her most recent book, Epistemic Authority: A Theory of Trust, Authority, and Autonomy in Belief (Oxford University Press, 2012) was based on her Wilde Lectures at Oxford University (2010), Kaminski Lectures at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (2011), and Olaus Petri Lectures at the University of Uppsala (2011). The book was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship. She will give the Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews in 2015. Some of her previous books include Virtues of the Mind (1996), Divine Motivation Theory (2004), and On Epistemology (2008). She is past president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers.