LINDA ZAGZEBSKI

University of Oklahoma

George Lynn Cross Research Professor

Kingfisher College Chair
of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics

Professor of Philosophy

Ph.D. Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles

M.A. University of Calif., Berkeley

B.A. Stanford University

Vita

Linda

Awards in 2005-6:

George Lynn Cross Research Professor, OU, 2006-

McCarthy Lectureship in Philosophy, Gregorian University, Rome, Feb-April 2006

Romanell- Phi Beta Kappa Professorship of Philosophy, 2005-6 .http://casweb.ou.edu/home/news/spotlight/spotlight_lzagzebski.htm

          Romanell Lectures:

“The Admirable Life and the Desirable Life”

“The Desirable Life and the Ethics of Belief and Assertion”

“The Ethics of Belief and the Diversity of Religions”        

Former academic position: Department of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles 1979-1999; Department Chair 1995-99.

RESEARCH

I work primarily in philosophy of religion, epistemology, and ethics. Research in recent years is mainly at the intersection of ethics and epistemology, religious epistemology, religious ethics, virtue theory, and the varieties of fatalism.

Papers Forthcoming

"Omnisubjectivity," forthcoming Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion.

"The Quantitative Problem of Evil: the C.S. Lewis Approach," co-authored with Joshua Seachris, forthcoming in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion

"Epistemic and Ethical Egoism and the Ideal of Autonomy," forthcoming in Episteme

 

True Family Lecture 2007, "Is it Reasonable to Believe in God"

 

Books

Philosophy of Religion: A Historical Introduction, (Blackwell 2007).

Divine Motivation Theory  (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology, edited with Michael De Paul, (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Virtue Epistemology: Essays on Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility, edited with Abrol Fairweather (Oxford University Press, 2001).

Virtues of the Mind (Cambridge University Press, 1996)

The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge (Oxford University Press, 1991)

Rational Faith: Catholic Responses to Reformed Epistemology (edited), (University of Notre Dame Press, 1993).

Readings in Philosophy of Religion: Ancient to Contemporary, edited with Timothy D. Miller, forthcoming, Blackwell. Table of Contents

On Epistemology, forthcoming, Wadworth.

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