Miranda Fricker Quotes
Miranda Fricker is a British philosopher, professor at the City University of New York, and the originator of the influential concept of epistemic injustice. Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing distinguished testimonial injustice, in which a speaker is given less credibility than she deserves because of prejudice, from hermeneutical injustice, in which a group lacks the conceptual resources to make sense of its own social experience. The quotes below are attributed to Miranda Fricker, organized by topic.
Miranda Fricker on Justice
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Attributed to Miranda Fricker:
“Testimonial injustice occurs when prejudice causes a hearer to give a deflated level of credibility to a speaker's word.”
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“Hermeneutical injustice is the injustice of having a significant area of one's social experience obscured from collective understanding.”
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“Listening responsibly is itself a form of justice.”
Miranda Fricker on Knowledge
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“Epistemology is part of social justice.”
Miranda Fricker on Virtue
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Attributed to Miranda Fricker:
“The virtues of a knower are not separable from the virtues of a citizen.”