Academic Staff

Dr Miranda Fricker

email: m.fricker (at) bbk.ac.uk

Miranda Fricker is Reader in the School of Philosophy. She did the DPhil at the University of Oxford (1996), first moving to the University of London to take up a Jacobsen Research Fellowship and then a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her main areas of interest are in ethics, epistemology, and in those regions of feminist philosophy that concern social identity, power, and the authority of reason. Her book, Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (OUP, 2007), explores how relations of social power and identity impinge in our epistemic practices to produce distinctively epistemic forms of injustice—injustices in which someone is undermined specifically in their capacity as a knower. She co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy with Jennifer Hornsby (2000); and she is co-author of Reading Ethics, written with Sam Guttenplan, an introductory textbook giving interactive commentaries on classic texts in moral philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).

She gave the 2009 Simone Weil Lectures on Human Value, held in Sydney and Melbourne. View details

Books:

• Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (OUP, 2007) - view abstract; read online reviews in (i) Notre Dame Philosophical Review and (ii) Philosophy (2009), 84 147-151 Cambridge University Press; download Times Literary Supplement review (in pdf format)
• Reading Ethics: an interactive commentary on selected texts in moral philosophy, co-written with Sam Guttenplan (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) - view details
• The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy, co-edited with Jennifer Hornsby (CUP, 2000) - view details

Selected Papers:

• 'The Relativism of Blame and Williams’ Relativism of Distance', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supp. Vol. (forthcoming 2010) - view paper (in pdf format)
• ‘Can There Be Institutional Virtues?’, Oxford Studies in Epistemology (Special Theme: Social Epistemology) Vol. 3, eds. T. S. Gendler & J. Hawthorne (forthcoming 2010) - view paper (in pdf format)
• ‘Scepticism and The Genealogy of Knowledge: Situating Epistemology in Time’ (Philosophical Papers, Vol. 37 (1) 2008: pp. 27-50) - view abstract/request paper
• ‘The Value of Knowledge and The Test of Time’, Epistemology, Royal Institute of Philosophy Series (Cambridge University Press, 2008) - view paper
• ‘Powerlessness and Social Interpretation’, Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology Vol. 3 Issue 1-2 (2006); 96-108 - view abstract or paper
• ‘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) - view abstract
• ‘Life-Story in Beauvoir’s Memoirs’, The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir ed. Claudia Card (CUP, 2003) - view abstract
• ‘Confidence and Irony’, Morality, Reflection, and Ideology ed. Edward Harcourt (OUP, 2000) - view abstract

Podcasts:

• The Philosopher's Zone, August 2009, (Australian Radio): An interview with Miranda on the Simone Weil Lectures on Human Value
• Ethics Bites: Miranda discusses moral relativism
• BBC In Our Time, November 2007: Discussing Guilt - also on the programme: Oliver Davies and Stephen Mulhall
• Philosophy Bites interview, June 2007: Miranda talks about her book, Epistemic Injustice
• BBC In Our Time, November 2006: Discussing Altruism - also on the programme: Richard Dawkins and John Dupré
• BBC In Our Time, November 2005: Discussing American pragmatists - also on the programme: A C Grayling and Julian Baggini
• BBC In Our Time, February 2002: Discussing Virtue - also on the programme: Roger Crisp and Galen Strawson