Miranda Fricker
Miranda Fricker FBA FAAS 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 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
- Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing
- Reading Ethics: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary, co-authored with Samuel Guttenplan
- The Epistemic Life of Groups: Essays in the Epistemology of Collectives, eds. Brady & Fricker
- Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology, eds. Fricker, Graham, Henderson & Pedersen
Selected articles
- "Powerlessness and Social Interpretation", Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology Vol. 3 Issue 1-2 ; 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
- "Life-Story in Beauvoir's Memoirs", The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir ed. Claudia Card
- "Confidence and Irony", Morality, Reflection, and Ideology ed. Edward Harcourt
- "Pluralism Without Postmodernism", The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy eds. M. Fricker and J. Hornsby