Miranda Fricker FBA

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(born 12 March 1966) is a British

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

who is a Silver Professor of Philosophy at

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, co-director of the New York Institute of Philosophy, and honorary professor at the

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. Fricker coined the term ''

epistemic injustice Epistemic injustice is injustice related to knowledge. It includes exclusion and silencing; systematic distortion or misrepresentation of one's meanings or contributions; undervaluing of one's status or standing in communicative practices; unfai ...

''.

Education and career

Fricker received her D.Phil. from

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in 1996. She taught at Birkbeck College, London, the

, The

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and moved to

in 2022. She was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2016 and a Fellow of the

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in 2020. She has featured discussing philosophical topics (

Virtue A virtue () is a trait of excellence, including traits that may be morality, moral, social, or intellectual. The cultivation and refinement of virtue is held to be the "good of humanity" and thus is Value (ethics), valued as an Telos, end purpos ...

Pragmatism Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that views language and thought as tools for prediction, problem solving, and action, rather than describing, representing, or mirroring reality. Pragmatists contend that most philosophical topics� ...

Altruism Altruism is the concern for the well-being of others, independently of personal benefit or reciprocity. The word ''altruism'' was popularised (and possibly coined) by the French philosopher Auguste Comte in French, as , for an antonym of egoi ...

and

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) on the popular BBC radio programme

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Contributions to philosophy

Fricker coined the term

, 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 (

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, 2000) *''Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing'' (

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, 2007) * ''Reading Ethics: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary'', co-authored with Samuel Guttenplan (

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, 2009) *''The Epistemic Life of Groups: Essays in the Epistemology of Collectives'', eds. Brady & Fricker (

, 2016) * ''Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology'', eds. Fricker, Graham, Henderson & Pedersen (

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, 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

External links

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at The University of Sheffield School of Philosophy website *
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