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Miranda Fricker

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Progress in Philosophy

I love the density of her philosophical prose and then Bernard Williams who became a second supervisor probably in my second year or something like that. I had this project about feminism and postmodernism and why the ultra relativism of postmodernism was a false friend to me we'd be better off embracing some kind of epistemic pluralism instead. He very kindly just sort of said it all right then and helped me and just took the project on its merits and helped me immensely. It's very strange because actually at that time I didn't really do much ethics where is the influence of Sabina on me was very real and present at the time  and continues with Iris Murdoch as you may know

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