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."

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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