Miranda Fricker
Miranda Fricker | |
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Born | 12 March 1966[1] | (age 58)
Alma mater | Pembroke College, Oxford |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy, feminist philosophy |
Main interests | Ethics, feminist epistemology |
Notable ideas | Epistemic injustice |
Miranda Fricker,
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.[2]
Education and career
Fricker received her D.Phil. from
Graduate Center, CUNY and moved to New York University in 2022.[3]
She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2016[4] and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.[5]
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]
- ^ "Feminist Social Epistemology". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. 2018.
- ^ "Professor Miranda Fricker; NYU Arts & Science".
- ^ "Professor Miranda Fricker FBA".
- ^ "New Members".
External links
- Homepage at The City of New York University (CUNY) Graduate Center website
- Homepage at The University of Sheffield School of Philosophy website
- Code, Lorraine (12 March 2008). "Review of Epistemic Injustice". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
- Homepage at MirandaFricker.com