Amia Srinivasan Explained

Amia Srinivasan
Birth Date:20 December 1984
Birth Place:Bahrain
Education:Yale University (BA)
Corpus Christi College, Oxford (BPhil, DPhil)
Thesis Title:The Fragile Estate
Thesis Year:2014
Doctoral Advisor:John Hawthorne
Timothy Williamson
Discipline:Philosophy
Workplaces:University College, London
St John's College, Oxford
All Souls College, Oxford

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]

Early life and education

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. 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.

Academic career

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. In January 2020, she took up the appointment of Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All 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]

Writing

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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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor Amia Srinivasan. St John's College. 2019-08-02. 13 October 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191013045201/http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/prof-amia-srinivasan/. live.
  2. Web site: Srinivasan, Amia, 1984- - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress). The Library of. Congress. id.loc.gov.
  3. Web site: Amia Srinivasan: the Oxford philosopher on animal rights, abortion and the far-right . Derbyshire . Jonathan . 2020-01-25 . Financial Times . 2020-01-25 . 25 January 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200125123249/https://www.ft.com/content/232ba980-3caa-11ea-b232-000f4477fbca . live .
  4. Web site: Tsjeng. Zing. 2021-07-25. Philosopher Amia Srinivasan Will Radically Change The Way You See Feminism, The #MeToo Movement – And Sex. 2021-09-04. British Vogue. en-GB.
  5. News: Cooke. Rachel. 2021-08-08. Amia Srinivasan: 'Sex as a subject isn't weird. It's very, very serious'. 2021-09-04. The Guardian. en.
  6. Web site: Curriculum Vitae: Amia Srinivasan . University of Oxford . 16 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210907190116/https://users.ox.ac.uk/~corp1468/Welcome_files/Srinivasan%20CV%202.pdf . 7 September 2021 .
  7. Web site: Amia Srinivasan Profile . The Rhodes Project . en . 2020-01-25 . 25 January 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200125230923/http://rhodesproject.com/amia-srinivasan-profile . live .
  8. The Fragile State: Essays on Luminosity, Normativity and Metaphilosophy. University of Oxford. 2013. DPhil. en. Amia. Srinivasan. 2 August 2019. 2 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190802094616/https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:23b7a5c9-448d-421b-b26c-5cae3591aee3. live.
  9. Web site: All Souls College Oxford. www.asc.ox.ac.uk. 2019-08-02. 2 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190802094623/https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/295. live.
  10. Web site: Professor Amia Srinivasan . All Souls College . University of Oxford . 16 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210812151205/https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/professor-amia-srinivasan . 12 August 2021.
  11. Web site: At the Depths of Believing. 2018-07-26. UCL Philosophy. en. 2019-08-02. 9 August 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180809082516/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/research/depths-of-believing. live.
  12. Web site: Visiting Fellows. as.nyu.edu. 2019-08-02. 2 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190802094613/http://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/research-centers/nyip/visiting-fellows.html. live.
  13. Web site: Professor Amia Srinivasan. St John's College. 2019-07-30. 13 October 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191013045201/http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/prof-amia-srinivasan/. live.
  14. Web site: Amia Srinivasan to be next Chichele Professor of Social & Political Theory at Oxford. Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog. 2019-08-02. 2 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190802013014/https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2019/07/amia-srinivasan-to-be-next-chichele-professor-of-social-political-theory-at-oxford.html. live.
  15. Web site: Statesman . New . 2023-05-17 . The New Statesman's left power list . 2023-12-13 . New Statesman . en-US.
  16. Web site: Editorial_Board_and_Other_Officers Mind Oxford Academic. academic.oup.com. 2019-08-02. 17 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190617155448/https://academic.oup.com/mind/pages/Editorial_Board_and_Other_Officers. live.
  17. Web site: Amia Srinivasan - Curriculum Vitae . 29 May 2024.
  18. Web site: Amia Srinivasan · LRB. www.lrb.co.uk . 2024-05-29 . 31 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190731073002/https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/amia-srinivasan. live.
  19. News: Szalai . Jennifer . 'The Right to Sex' Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent . 23 September 2021 . The New York Times . 21 September 2021.
  20. Online version is titled "Who lost the sex wars?".

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