Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski was born on 1946 and is an American philosopher.
13 Facts About Linda Zagzebski
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Linda Zagzebski is the Emerita George Lynn Cross Research Professor, as well as Emerita Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, at the University of Oklahoma.
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Linda Zagzebski writes in the areas of epistemology, philosophy of religion, and virtue theory.
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Linda Zagzebski taught at Loyola Marymount University from 1979 to 1999, before joining the University of Oklahoma.
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Linda Zagzebski delivered the Wilde Lectures in Natural Religion at Oxford University in the spring of 2010 on epistemic authority.
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Linda Zagzebski is president of the American Philosophical Association Central Division, and gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews in the fall of 2015 on the topic of exemplarist virtue theory.
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Linda Zagzebski is past president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers.
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Linda Zagzebski delivered the Wilde Lectures in Natural Religion at Oxford University in the spring of 2010 on epistemic authority.
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Linda Zagzebski is president of the American Philosophical Association Central Division, and gave the Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews in the fall of 2015 on the topic of exemplarist virtue theory.
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Linda Zagzebski is past president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers.
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Linda Zagzebski is a pioneer in the field of virtue epistemology.
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Linda Zagzebski has done work on questions of epistemic value including the "espresso machine" thought experiment as a counter to reliabilism.
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In 1996, Linda Zagzebski defined knowledge as a "state of true belief arising out of acts of intellectual virtue", where the word 'true' can be omitted.