Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
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Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski holds the Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics, at the University of Oklahoma. She received her BA from Stanford and her PhD from UCLA.
A pioneer in the field of virtue epistemology and advocate of divine motivation theory. In Virtues of the Mind (1996), she set out to solve certain problems in modern epistemology by adverting to an Aristotelian model of virtue theory, and in the course of this project she lays out a very thorough analysis of virtue generally.
She has also dealt extensively with problems in the relationship between reason, faith, and ethics, most thoroughly in Divine Motivation Theory (2004).
