Time and date
Monday, 1 June 2026, 16:30 – 18:15
Venue
Lecture Theatre, The H B Allen Centre, 25 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN
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Series title | Moral Pressures: Bending Time, Shaping Wills
Abstract TBC
Description
Professor Miranda Fricker joined the NYU Philosophy Department in 2022, where she is Julius Silver Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the New York Institute of Philosophy. Previously, she was a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY (2016–2022), and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield (2012–2016), where she continues to hold an Honorary Professorship. Prior to that, she teaches for many years at Birkbeck, University of London.
Her research lies primarily in moral philosophy and social epistemology and is deeply informed by feminist philosophy, which has consistently shaped her approach to philosophical inquiry. Her interest in feminist philosophy develops during an interdisciplinary MA in Women’s Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury, which leads her back to graduate study in philosophy. She completes her DPhil at the University of Oxford in 1996, co-supervised by Sabina Lovibond and Bernard Williams.
Her work is driven by a sustained interest in the role of social identity and power in human practices, often operating at the intersection of epistemology and moral philosophy. More recently, her research in social epistemology focuses on how epistemic virtues and vices can become embedded within institutional structures. In ethics, Professor Miranda Fricker explores interpersonal moral psychological responses such as blame, apology, and forgiveness, with particular attention to how these responses can foster shared moral understanding.
Professor Miranda Fricker will deliver the 2026 Annual Uehiro Lectures on Moral pressures: Bending Time, Shaping Will.
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