The value turn has numerous motivations; I’ll discuss three of them. The first of these motivations consists in the ancient roots of the idea that epistemology is in some important way value-theoretic. Plato and Aristotle both took epistemic states such as knowledge and understanding to have particular and distinctive value. So too did their immediate and medieval followers (Zagzebski 2001). Th...

the present essay is a critical study of zagzebski’s reading and criticism of plantinga’s virtue-epistemology. zagzebski, on the account of her definition of knowledge and the role that she assigns to ‘volition’ and ‘awareness’ in virtuous acts, along with her acceptance of the uniformity of moral and epistemic virtue, challenges plantinga’s theory of knowledge. zagzebski believes that although...

comparison of mula sadra’s epistemology theory and virtual epistemology theories of zagzebski and platinga infers that the former’s theory can be categorized as a virtual epistemology. platinga believes in virtue of forming faculties and zagzebski believes in function of intellectual power in forming episteme. in fact, both of them believe is some aspects of the elements effective in formation ...

knowledge is one of the most important accomplishments of human being in confrontation with phenomena and facts whichhe acquires through his cognitive faculties. throughout the history of philosophy, there was always this confusion that whether or not beliefs are influenced by his non-epistemic areas and external elements, and if so, is it epistemically acceptable or the agent should avoid thes...

In the last decade or so, a special class of virtue theories has been carefully articulated by at least two able philosophers: Rosalind Hursthouse and Linda Zagzebski. Hursthouse and Zagzebski defend different versions of what we call counterfactual exemplar-based virtue theory. These theories are exemplar-based because they define key concepts in terms of characteristics, motivations, and acti...

This article examines the use of biographical narratives in contemporary moral education, with particular reference to exemplarist theory (EMT) Linda Zagzebski. It distinguishes betwee...