Miranda Fricker
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Miranda Fricker | |
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.jpg) Fricker in 2016 | |
| Born | 12 March 1966 (age 59)[1] |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Oxford |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | 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.[2]
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.[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] 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.[6]
