Miranda Fricker, FBA

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(born 12 March 1966) is a

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who is 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; unfair d ...

, 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''.

Education and career

Fricker received her D.Phil. from

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in 1996. She taught at

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, 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.

Selected publications

Books

* ''The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy'', co-edited with

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(

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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'' (

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, 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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