Linda Zagzebski has made wide-ranging and influential contributions in epistemology and philosophy of religion over her career. Within epistemology specifically, Zagzebski is rightly associated with her pioneering book Virtues of the Mind, which is a core classic in virtue epistemology (Zagzebski 1996). Importantly, though, Zagzebski has also carved out notable positions in a range of other areas of epistemology, including in debates about the nature of understanding, the value of knowledge, religious epistemology, intellectual autonomy and authority, and skepticism and the Gettier problem. Epistemic Values: Collected Papers in Epistemology brings together twenty of Zagzebski’s epistemology essays, divided into six sections (with usually three or four essays each) that span all of the above general themes.
I will make a general comment about the book as a whole and then use the remainder of this space to critically focus on a limited selection of the specific essays included. The general...
