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Miranda Fricker

English feminist philosopher

Summary

English feminist philosopher

Field	Value
region	Western philosophy
era	Contemporary philosophy
image	Miranda Fricker (25652615846).jpg
caption	Fricker in 2016
name	Miranda Fricker
honorific_suffix	FBA FAAS
birth_date
alma_mater	Pembroke College, Oxford
school_tradition	Analytic philosophy, feminist philosophy
main_interests	Ethics, feminist epistemology
notable_ideas	Epistemic injustice

Miranda Fricker FBA FAAS (born 12 March 1966) is a British philosopher who is a Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University, co-director of the New York Institute of Philosophy, and honorary professor at the University of Sheffield. Fricker coined the term epistemic injustice.

Education and career

Fricker received her D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1996. She taught at Birkbeck College, London, the University of Sheffield, The Graduate Center, CUNY and moved to New York University in 2022.

She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2016 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. She has featured discussing philosophical topics (Virtue, Pragmatism, Altruism and Guilt) on the popular BBC radio programme In Our Time.

Contributions to philosophy

Fricker coined the term epistemic injustice, the concept of an injustice done against someone "specifically in their capacity as a knower", and explored the concept in her 2007 book Epistemic Injustice.

Selected publications

Books

The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy, co-edited with Jennifer Hornsby (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Reading Ethics: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary, co-authored with Samuel Guttenplan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
The Epistemic Life of Groups: Essays in the Epistemology of Collectives, eds. Brady & Fricker (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology, eds. Fricker, Graham, Henderson & Pedersen (Routledge, 2019)

Selected articles

"Powerlessness and Social Interpretation", Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology Vol. 3 Issue 1-2 (2006); 96-108
"Epistemic Injustice and A Role for Virtue in the Politics of Knowing", Metaphilosophy vol. 34 Nos. 1/2 Jan 2003; reprinted in M. Brady and D. Pritchard eds. Moral and Epistemic Virtues (Blackwell, 2003)
"Life-Story in Beauvoir's Memoirs", The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir ed. Claudia Card (CUP, 2003)
"Confidence and Irony", Morality, Reflection, and Ideology ed. Edward Harcourt (OUP, 2000)
"Pluralism Without Postmodernism", The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy eds. M. Fricker and J. Hornsby (CUP, 2000)

References

http://www.shef.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.463732!/file/CV.pdf {{Bare URL PDF. (March 2022)
"Miranda Fricker".
"Professor Miranda Fricker; NYU Arts & Science".
"Professor Miranda Fricker FBA".
"New Members".
(2018). "The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy". Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University.

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