Amia Srinivasan | |
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| Born | 20 December 1984 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Yale University (BA) Corpus Christi College, Oxford (BPhil, DPhil) |
| Thesis | The Fragile Estate (2014) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Hawthorne Timothy Williamson |
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| Discipline | Philosophy |
| Institutions | University College,London St John's College,Oxford All Souls College,Oxford |
Amia Srinivasan (born 20 December 1984) is a philosopher noted for her work in epistemology and feminist philosophy. Since January 2020,she has been Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford. [1]
Srinivasan was born on 20 December 1984 [2] in Bahrain to Indian parents and later lived in Taiwan,Singapore,New York,and London. [3] [4] [5] She studied for an undergraduate degree in philosophy at Yale University,graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree summa cum laude in 2007. [6] This was followed by postgraduate Bachelor of Philosophy (BPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degrees as a Rhodes Scholar at Corpus Christi College,University of Oxford. [7] Her BPhil was completed in 2009 with a thesis titled "Armchair Philosophy &Experimental Philosophy," supervised by John Hawthorne. [6] She completed her DPhil in 2014 with a thesis titled The Fragile Estate:Essays on Luminosity,Normativity and Metaphilosophy: [8] her doctoral supervisors were John Hawthorne and Timothy Williamson. [6]
In 2009,she was elected as a prize fellow at All Souls College,Oxford. [9] In 2015,she was appointed as a lecturer in philosophy at University College London (UCL). [10] In 2016,she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for the project "At the Depths of Believing". [11] She has held visiting fellowships at the University of California,Los Angeles,Yale University,and New York University. [12]
In October 2018,Srinivasan joined St John's College,Oxford as a tutorial fellow in philosophy. [13] She was additionally an associate professor of philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy,University of Oxford from 2018 to 2019. [10] In September 2019,she was announced as the next Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College,Oxford:she took up the appointment on 1 January 2020. [14] She is the first woman and the first person of color to occupy this position. [5]
She is an associate editor of the philosophy journal Mind [15] and a contributing editor of the London Review of Books . [16] In 2021,Srinivasan published a collection of essays titled The Right to Sex . [17]
In 2023,Srinivasan ranked number forty-eight in the New Statesman’s Left Power List 2023 of influential British political figures. [18]
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