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On Epistemology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 175

On Epistemology

What is knowledge? Why do we want it? Is knowledge possible? How do we get it? What about other epistemic values like understanding and certainty? Why are so many epistemologists worried about luck? In ON EPISTEMOLOGY Linda Zagzebski situates epistemological questions within the broader framework of what we care about and why we care about it. Questions of value shape all of the above questions and explain some significant philosophical trends: the obsession with answering the skeptic, the flight from realism, and the debate between naturalism and anti-naturalism. THE WADSWORTH PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS SERIES (under the general editorship of Robert Talisse, Vanderbilt University) presents reader...

The Two Greatest Ideas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

The Two Greatest Ideas

Two simple yet tremendously powerful ideas that shaped virtually every aspect of civilization This book is a breathtaking examination of the two greatest ideas in human history. The first is the idea that the human mind can grasp the universe. The second is the idea that the human mind can grasp itself. Acclaimed philosopher Linda Zagzebski shows how the first unleashed a cultural awakening that swept across the world in the first millennium BCE, giving birth to philosophy, mathematics, science, and virtually all the major world religions. It dominated until the Renaissance, when the discovery of subjectivity profoundly transformed the arts and sciences. This second great idea governed our p...

Epistemic Authority
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Epistemic Authority

Gives an extended argument for epistemic authority from the implications of reflective self-consciousness. Epistemic authority is compatible with autonomy, but epistemic self-reliance is incoherent. The book argues that epistemic and emotional self-trust are rational and inescapable, that consistent self-trust commits us to trust in others, and that among those we are committed to trusting are some whom we ought to treat as epistemic authorities, modelled on the well-known principles of authority of Joseph Raz. Some of these authorities can be in the moral and religious domains. The book investigates the way the problem of disagreement between communities or between the self and others is a conflict within self-trust, and argue against communal self-reliance on the same grounds as the book uses in arguing against individual self-reliance. The book explains how any change in belief is justified--by the conscientious judgment that the change will survive future conscientious self-reflection. The book concludes with an account of autonomy. -- InformaciĆ³n de la editorial.

Virtues of the Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

Virtues of the Mind

This remarkable book is the first attempt to establish a theory of knowledge based on the model of virtue theory in ethics.

Exemplarist Moral Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Exemplarist Moral Theory

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.

Epistemic Values
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 381

Epistemic Values

"This book collects 20 papers in epistemology by Linda Zagzebski, covering her entire career of more than 25 years. She is one of the founders of contemporary epistemology and is well-known for broadening the field and re-focusing it on epistemic virtue and epistemic value. The subject areas of most of epistemology are included in these papers: (1) knowledge and understanding, (2) intellectual virtue, (3) epistemic value, (4) virtue in religious epistemology, (5) intellectual autonomy and authority, and (6) skepticism and the Gettier problem"--

God, Knowledge, and the Good
  • Language: en

God, Knowledge, and the Good

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"This volume collects the published articles in philosophy of religion by the pre-eminent philosopher Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski. The volume focuses on the major themes of her career, which is reflected in the sections of the volume: 1) Foreknowledge and Fatalism, 2) The Problem of Evil, 3) Death, Hell, and Resurrection, 4) God and Morality, 5) Omnisubjectivity, 6) The Rationality of Religious Belief, 7) Rational Religious Belief, Self-Trust, and Authority, and 8) God, Trinity, and the Metaphysics of Modality.A companion volume to Epistemic Values, her collected articles in epistemology, this volume will be an important resource for scholars in the philosophy of religion, religious epistemology, and religious ethics."--Provided by publisher.

On epistemology Wadsworth philosophical topics Philosopher (Wadsworth)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

On epistemology Wadsworth philosophical topics Philosopher (Wadsworth)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Each volume in the Wadsworth Learning Topics Series provides a problems-based orientation to leading topics of philosophical inquiry that is accessible to undergraduate students and general readers. More than a collection of introductory volumes summarizing standard philosophical positions, the Wadsworth Learning Philosophical Topics Series engages readers philosophically, inviting them to wonder, examine, and reason critically. Series editor, Robert B. Talisse of the Philosophy Department of Vanderbilt University, oversees each volume, helping ensure that each book will empower the reader to better understand major topics in philosophy. The titles in the series are written by philosophers distinguished in their fields who have been noted for exceptional teaching and clear writing. These books will prove valuable to philosophy teachers and their students as well as to other readers who share a general interest in philosophy.

The Two Greatest Ideas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

The Two Greatest Ideas

Two simple yet tremendously powerful ideas that shaped virtually every aspect of civilization This book is a breathtaking examination of the two greatest ideas in human history. The first is the idea that the human mind can grasp the universe. The second is the idea that the human mind can grasp itself. Acclaimed philosopher Linda Zagzebski shows how the first unleashed a cultural awakening that swept across the world in the first millennium BCE, giving birth to philosophy, mathematics, science, and virtually all the major world religions. It dominated until the Renaissance, when the discovery of subjectivity profoundly transformed the arts and sciences. This second great idea governed our p...

Intellectual Virtue
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Intellectual Virtue

"Virtue ethics has attracted a lot of attention and there has been considerable interest in virtue epistemology as an alternative to traditional approaches in that field. This book fills a gap in the literature for a text that brings virtue epistemologists and virtue ethicists together."-- Back cover.