NDPR Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski Omnisubjectivity: An Essay on God and Subjectivity

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Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski, Omnisubjectivity: An Essay on God and Subjectivity, Oxford University Press, 2023, 224pp., $35.99 (hbk) ISBN 9780197682098.

Reviewed by Sabrina B. Little, The Ohio State University

Does God know my present joy, as it is experienced by me in all of my creaturely constraints? In Omnisubjectivity, Linda Zagzebski answers in the affirmative. She argues that God is omnisubjective, having the property of perfectly grasping all conscious states of every conscious being from the first-person perspective of the subject. Omnisubjectivity is compelling, clear, and interesting. It is valuable both for the view it advances and for introducing readers to a tradition of inquiry on Divine attributes in classical theism. In what follows, I provide an overview of Zagzebski’s arguments, raising questions that these arguments generate along the way....