Amia Srinivasan

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
Born	(1984-12-20) 20 December 1984 (age 40) Bahrain
Academic background
Education	Yale University (BA) Corpus Christi College, Oxford (BPhil, DPhil)
Thesis	The Fragile Estate (2014)
Doctoral advisor	John Hawthorne Timothy Williamson
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy
Institutions	University College, London St John's College, Oxford All Souls College, Oxford

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.^[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]

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.^[10] 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]

Works

• The Right to Sex (Bloomsbury, 2021) ISBN 9781526612533

Articles

• Srinivasan, Amia (2015). "Normativity Without Cartesian Privilege". Philosophical Issues. 25: 273–299. ISSN 1533-6077.
• Srinivasan, Amia (12 March 2015). "Are We Luminous?". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 90 (2): 294–319. doi:10.1111/phpr.12067. ISSN 0031-8205.
• Srinivasan, Amia (9 July 2017). "The Aptness of Anger". Journal of Political Philosophy. 26 (2): 123–144. doi:10.1111/jopp.12130. ISSN 0963-8016.
• Srinivasan, Amia (July 2019). "Genealogy, Epistemology and Worldmaking" (PDF). Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 119 (2): 127–156. doi:10.1093/arisoc/aoz009. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
• Srinivasan, Amia (1 July 2020). "Radical Externalism". The Philosophical Review. 129 (3): 395–431. doi:10.1215/00318108-8311261. ISSN 0031-8108.
• Srinivasan, Amia (13 September 2021). "The sex wars : feminism and its fault lines". Annals of Activism. The New Yorker. 97 (28): 20–26.^[20]
• Srinivasan, Amia (16 November 2021). "Of money and men: Emily Ratajkowski in conversation". Interview.