Miranda Fricker

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Miranda Fricker is an English philosopher. She currently holds the position of Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford before taking up a Jacobsen Research Fellowship and later a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of London. Prior to writing Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (2007), Fricker co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy (2000) with Jennifer Hornsby. Her research interests include ethics, epistemology, and feminist philosophy.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Selected publications:

  • "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)

[edit] External links

  • Homepage at Birkbeck School of Philosophy website
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