High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (born 1946) holds the Kingfisher College Chair of Philosophy of Religion and Ethics at the University of Oklahoma. She received her BA from Stanford, her MA from UC Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from UCLA (dissertation: Natural Kinds). Zagzebski is a pioneer in the field of virtue epistemology. In Virtues of the Mind (1996), she sets out to solve certain problems in modern epistemology by developing an Aristotelian version of virtue theory, and in the course of this project she lays out a general analysis of virtue. In Divine Motivation Theory (2004) she deals extensively with problems in the relationship between reason, faith, and ethics .