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Rachel Fraser

Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK

Rachel Fraser is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a tutorial fellow of Exeter College. From January 2025, she’ll be associate professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Written by Rachel Fraser

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Against humility

Intellectual humility has recently been hailed as the key to thinking well. The story of Barbara McClintock proves otherwise

Rachel Fraser