Dr Miranda Fricker

Miranda Fricker is senior lecturer in philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her main areas of interest are in ethics, epistemology, and in the regions of feminist philosophy that concern social identity, power, and the authority of reason. Most recently, her work has focused on the significance of situating epistemic practices, including moral epistemic practices, in time - both real time, and the semi-fictional time of genealogical explanation.
Miranda's book, Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing, explores how relations of social power and identity impinge in our epistemic practices to produce distinctively epistemic forms of injustice. She has also co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Feminism in Philosophy with Jennifer Hornsby in 2000, and co-authored Reading Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), an introductory textbook with interactive commentaries on classic texts in moral philosophy.