Miranda Fricker to deliver Lindner Lecture in Ethics Oct. 25

The College of Wooster Department of Philosophy will welcome Miranda Fricker as she delivers the 17th annual Lindner Lecture in Ethics. The event will take place on Oct. 25 at 8 p.m. in the Lean Lecture Room in Wishart Hall (303 E. University Street). Supported by the Lindner Endowment, the topic of this lecture will be “The Perpetual Recreation of Ethical Life: Bernard Williams’s Dynamic Historicism.”

The following day, Oct. 26, a critics’ panel will be held at 11 a.m. in room 105 of Scovel Hall (944 College Mall). This panel will feature Claire Kirwin, assistant professor of philosophy at Northwestern University, and Marcel van Ackeren, senior lecturer for ethics at Wuerzburg University and associate member of the faculty of philosophy at Oxford University, who will speak on Fricker’s work in conversation with students. Both events are free and open to the public.  

Fricker is the Julius Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University, and co-director of the New York Institute of Philosophy. Fricker holds a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, where her dissertation work was co-supervised by Sabina Lovibond and Bernard Williams. Fricker taught previously at the CUNY Graduate Center, the University of Sheffield, and Birkbeck, University of London. She is a fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Fricker works primarily in the areas of moral philosophy and social epistemology, and her work is feminist and analytic in style. Among her areas of current research are a project on Bernard Williams’s conception of ethical freedom. 

The Lindner Lecture in Ethics is supported by The Lindner Endowment, which was established in 2007 through a generous gift from Carl H. Lindner to support the Department of Philosophy in the teaching of ethics. For more information, contact Evan Riley at eriley@wooster.edu.  

Image: Miranda Fricker, Julius Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University, and co-director of the New York Institute of Philosophy. Photo provided by Fricker.

Posted in News on October 16, 2023.