Amia Srinivasan (born 20 December 1984) is a philosopher and author 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]
Amia Srinivasan
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Born | (1984-12-20) 20 December 1984 (age 39) |
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 |
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 philosophyatYale 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 ScholaratCorpus 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 fellowatAll 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 January 2020, she took up the appointment of Chichele Professor of Social and Political TheoryatAll Souls College, Oxford.[14]
In 2023, Srinivasan ranked number forty-eight in the New Statesman’s Left Power List 2023 of influential British political figures.[15]
Srinivasan was an associate editor both for the philosophy journal Mind from 2015 to 2021[16] and The Journal of Political Philosophy in 2023.[17]
Srinivasan is a contributing editor of the London Review of Books.[18]
In 2021, Srinivasan published a collection of essays in a book entitled The Right to Sex.[19]
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Vacant Title last held by Jeremy Waldron |
Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory 2020–present |
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