Amia Srinivasan

Amia Srinivasan (born 1984) is a philosopher and academic, specialising in political philosophy, epistemology and metaphilosophy. Since January 2020, she has been Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford.[1]

Amia Srinivasan
Born1984 (age 35–36)
Alma materYale University, Oxford University
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
Main interests

Early life and education

Srinivasan was born in Bahrain to Indian parents and later lived in New York.[2] She studied for an undergraduate degree in Philosophy at Yale University. 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.[3] She completed her DPhil in 2014 with a thesis titled The Fragile Estate: Essays on Luminosity, Normativity and Metaphilosophy.[4]

Academic career

In 2009 she was elected as a Prize Fellow at All Souls College.[5] In 2015 she was appointed as a lecturer in Philosophy at UCL. In 2018 she was appointed as a tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at St John's College.[6] In 2016 she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for the project 'At the Depths of Believing'.[7] She has held visiting fellowships at UCLA, Yale, and NYU.[8] In 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.[9]

She is an associate editor of the philosophy journal Mind[10] and a contributing editor of the London Review of Books.[11]

Selected publications

Journal articles

2013. Are we Luminous? Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 90(2): 294 – 319.

2015. The Archimedean Urge. Philosophical Perspectives 29(1): 325-362.

2015. Normativity without Cartesian Privilege. Philosophical Issues 25(1): 273-299.

2016. Philosophy and Ideology. Theoria 31(3): 371-380.

2018. The Aptness of Anger. Journal of Political Philosophy 26(2): 123-144.

2018. The Ineffable and the Ethical. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 96(1): 215-223.

2018. How to do things with philosophy. European Journal of Philosophy 26: 1410-1416.

2020. "He, She, One, They, Ho, Hus, Hum, Ita" (review of Dennis Baron, What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She, Liveright, 2020, ISBN 978 1 63149 6042, 304 pp.), London Review of Books, vol. 42, no. 13 (2 July 2020), pp. 34–39. Prof. Srinivasan writes (p. 39): "People use non-standard pronouns, or use pronouns in non-standard ways, for various reasons: to accord with their sense of themselves, to make their passage through the world less painful, to prefigure and hasten the arrival of a world in which divisions of sex no longer matter. So too we can choose to respect people's pronouns for many reasons."

gollark: Have you tried using Rust?
gollark: And yet you wrote three (4) python for the contest.
gollark: Presumably, its floating point hardware should be able to set an "oh no, an operation somewhere imploded" flag to check after each... something.
gollark: I like this.
gollark: Integer NaN? Make NaN be 3 or something?

References
  1. "Professor Amia Srinivasan". St John's College. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
  2. Derbyshire, Jonathan (2020-01-25). "Amia Srinivasan: the Oxford philosopher on animal rights, abortion and the far-right". Financial Times. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  3. "Amia Srinivasan Profile". The Rhodes Project. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  4. Srinivasan, Amia (2013). The Fragile Estate: Essays on Luminosity, Normativity and Metaphilosophy (http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text thesis). University of Oxford.
  5. "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
  6. "Professor Amia Srinivasan". St John's College. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
  7. UCL (2018-07-26). "At the Depths of Believing". UCL Philosophy. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
  8. "Visiting Fellows". as.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
  9. "Amia Srinivasan to be next Chichele Professor of Social & Political Theory at Oxford". Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
  10. "Editorial_Board_and_Other_Officers | Mind | Oxford Academic". academic.oup.com. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
  11. "Amia Srinivasan · LRB". www.lrb.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-31.
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