The Epistemic Life of Groups: Essays in the Epistemology of Collectives

Michael Brady is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. His research centres on the philosophy of emotion, and its links with moral philosophy and epistemology. In 2013 his book Emotional Insight was published by Oxford University Press. He is currently Co-Investigator on a major interdisciplinary project on the Value of Suffering at Glasgow. He was Director of the British Philosophical Association, having previously served as Secretary of theScots Philosophical Association. Outside of academia, he has acted as a philosophical advisor on a number of productions by the Manchester-based theatre company Quarantine. Miranda Fricker is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. Her research is in ethics, social epistemology, and feminist philosophy, with occasional forays into political philosophy. She is the author of Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (OUP, 2007); co-author and editor of Reading Ethics: Selected texts with interactive commentary (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) with Sam Guttenplan; and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Feminism inPhilosophy (CUP, 2000) with Jennifer Hornsby. She is Director of the Mind Association, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association.