10 Facts About Marilyn Friedman

Marilyn Ann Friedman was born on April 7,1945 and is an American philosopher.

Marilyn Friedman holds the W Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

In 1964, while Friedman was taking a year off from college, she was persuaded by what she refers to as "a kind of political ignorance and apathy" by political chaos.

Marilyn Friedman's full-time teaching career began in 1973 at Denison University, where she spent four years teaching.

Marilyn Friedman has explored such topics as: the nature of close interpersonal relationships, women in poverty, care and justice, partiality and impartiality, autonomy, gender identity, and multicultural education.

Marilyn Friedman gained tenure in 1993, twenty years after she first began teaching.

Marilyn Friedman is the editor of Women and Citizenship, which contains essays by leading feminist scholars, and has co-edited Feminism and Community, Mind and Morals: Essays on Ethics and Cognitive Science, and Rights and Reason: Essays in Honor of Carl Wellman.

Marilyn Friedman's articles have appeared in anthologies, as well as the Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Hypatia, and others.

Marilyn Friedman's interests include a project on female terrorists, and she has covered topics such as whether virtue is required for happiness, how to engage in blaming people in a responsible manner, and how to understand abused women who are convicted of failing to protect their children from the same abusers who are abusing them.

Marilyn Friedman was raised in the city of Chicago by parents who were poorly educated, working class Jewish immigrants.