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Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Also known as: Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski, Linda Zagzebski
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Virtue Epistemology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 17 facts
claimLinda Zagzebski is a virtue responsibilist who defines intellectual virtues as traits of character.
referenceLinda Zagzebski's book 'Virtues of the Mind' (1996) provides a systematic treatment of intellectual virtues and is considered one of the most developed in the literature.
claimLinda Zagzebski defines knowledge as belief arising from acts of intellectual virtue.
claimLinda Zagzebski characterizes Gettier cases as situations where the connection between the warrant condition and the truth condition for knowledge is severed by bad luck and restored by good luck.
claimLinda Zagzebski categorizes intellectual ends into ultimate or final ends, such as truth and understanding, and proximate or immediate ends.
claimLinda Zagzebski claims that all virtues consist of two main components: a motivation component and a success component.
quoteLinda Zagzebski defines an "act of intellectual virtue" as an act that "gets everything right": it involves having an intellectually virtuous motive, doing what an intellectually virtuous person would do in the situation, and reaching the truth as a result.
claimLinda Zagzebski's view on knowledge requires the presence of virtuous intellectual motives, which the author argues are absent in cases where knowledge is gained through automatic cognitive processes.
claimLinda Zagzebski, Lorraine Code, and James Montmarquet all view intellectual virtues as arising fundamentally from a motivation or desire to achieve certain intellectual goods.
claimLinda Zagzebski claims that her analysis of knowledge is immune to Gettier counterexamples because of the tight connection between the warrant and truth conditions for knowledge.
claimVirtue responsibilists, such as Linda Zagzebski (1996), argue that their focus on character traits represents the intellectual counterpart to moral virtues and should be classified as intellectual virtues.
claimLinda Zagzebski's analysis of knowledge defines knowledge as belief arising from acts of intellectual virtue, rather than true belief, because the justification or warrant condition entails the truth condition.
claimLinda Zagzebski's theory of knowledge resembles virtue reliabilism because its main component is a virtue-based account of knowledge.
claimLinda Zagzebski claims that knowledge is a belief arising from what she calls 'acts of intellectual virtue'.
claimLinda Zagzebski defines an intellectually courageous person as someone motivated to persist in beliefs or inquiries out of a desire for truth and who is reliably successful in that persistence.
referenceThe Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Virtue Epistemology cites Linda Zagzebski's 1996 book 'Virtues of the Mind' as a key reference in the field.
referenceMichael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski's 'Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology' (2003) is a cited work in virtue epistemology.
Virtue epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 8 facts
referenceLinda Zagzebski authored the chapter 'The Search for the Source of Epistemic Good' in the book 'Moral and Epistemic Virtues', edited by Michael Brady and Duncan Pritchard and published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. in 2003.
referenceLinda Zagzebski authored the chapter 'Intellectual Motivation and the Good of Truth' in the book 'Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology', edited by Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski and published by Clarendon Press in 2003.
claimLinda Trinkaus Zagzebski includes the notion of "reliable success" in her model of virtue epistemology to address the problem of well-intentioned agents who desire truth but employ ineffective methods to pursue it.
claimIn Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski's model of virtue epistemology, the "characteristic motivation" of an intellectual virtue is the desire for truth, understanding, and other forms of cognitive contact with reality.
referenceLinda Zagzebski authored the chapter 'Must Knowers Be Agents?' in the book 'Virtue Epistemology: Essays on Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility', edited by Abrol Fairweather and Linda Zagzebski and published by Oxford University Press in 2001.
claimLinda Trinkaus Zagzebski proposed a neo-Aristotelian model of virtue epistemology that emphasizes phronesis (practical wisdom) as an architectonic virtue that unifies moral and intellectual virtues more radically than Aristotle's original proposal.
referenceLinda Zagzebski and Michael DePaul authored the 'Introduction' in the book 'Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology', edited by Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski and published by Clarendon Press in 2003.
quoteLinda Trinkaus Zagzebski defines virtues as "a deep and enduring acquired excellence of a person, involving a characteristic motivation to produce a certain desired end and reliable success in bringing about that end."
Virtue Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 9, 1999 6 facts
claimLinda Zagzebski (1996) argues that an epistemological theory should be practically useful in helping individuals recognize when they do or do not know something.
referenceLinda Trinkaus Zagzebski published 'Recovering Understanding' in 2001, which appears in the collection edited by Steup.
claimLinda Zagzebski defines understanding as 'the state of comprehension of nonpropositional structures of reality,' noting that it pertains to patterns or systems rather than discrete propositions and is tied to the mastery of an art or skill.
referenceLinda Zagzebski's conventional virtue epistemology (1996) provides a definition of knowledge and an attempted resolution of the Gettier problem.
claimLorraine Code, James Montmarquet, Jonathan Kvanvig, and Linda Zagzebski contributed early work to virtue epistemology, arguing that Ernest Sosa's approach did not sufficiently emphasize the central role of virtues like responsibility or conscientiousness, their social and developmental bases, or the relationships between intellectual and ethical virtues.
accountIn a Gettier case adapted from Zagzebski (1996), Mary enters her house and sees a familiar appearance in her husband's chair, leading her to believe her husband is sitting in the living room. However, she has misidentified the man, who is actually her husband's brother, while her husband is actually dozing in a different chair out of her sight.
Virtue Epistemology, Anyone? - The Philosophers' Magazine - philosophersmag.com 3 facts
claimLinda Zagzebski posits that intellectual virtues are a subset of moral virtues, which implies that epistemology is a branch of ethics.
claimLinda Zagzebski introduced a Neo-Aristotelian approach to virtue epistemology that proposes a unified account of epistemic and moral virtues, analyzing right beliefs in terms of virtuous character.
quoteLinda Zagzebski defines a pure virtue theory as: 'By a pure virtue theory I mean a theory that makes the concept of a right act derivative from the concept of a virtue or some inner state of a person that is a component of virtue. This is a point both about conceptual priority and about moral ontology.'
Virtue Epistemology: Essays in Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility books.google.com 2 facts
claimThe book 'Virtue Epistemology: Essays in Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility', edited by Abrol Fairweather and Linda Zagzebski, contains thirteen previously unpublished essays by contemporary American philosophers.
claimAbrol Fairweather and Linda Zagzebski authored the book 'Virtue Epistemology: Essays in Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility,' which was published in 2001.
Epistemological Problems of Testimony plato.stanford.edu Apr 1, 2021 2 facts
claimArnon Keren analyzes Linda Zagzebski's views on authority and preemption in the domain of belief in a 2014 article.
quoteLinda Zagzebski defines Preemption in the context of authoritative testimony as: 'The fact that an authority… [testifies] that p is a reason for me to believe that p which replaces my other reasons relevant to p and is not simply added to them.'
Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Dec 14, 2005 1 fact
referenceLinda Trinkaus Zagzebski authored the book 'Virtues of the Mind: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Virtue and the Ethical Foundations of Knowledge', published by Cambridge University Press in 1996.
Virtue Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 9, 1999 1 fact
claimLinda Zagzebski conjectures that understanding can be defined analogously to knowledge, but whereas knowledge derives from virtues that aim at truth, understanding derives at least partly from different, special virtues that have been hitherto unanalyzed or unrecognized.
Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Dec 14, 2005 1 fact
referenceLinda Trinkaus Zagzebski authored 'What Is Knowledge?', published in the 1999 collection 'Greco and Sosa 1999'.
Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimVirtue epistemologists, including Ernest Sosa and Linda Zagzebski, analyze the process of belief formation by examining the intellectual virtues or cognitive competencies involved.