Biography:Amia Srinivasan

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Short description: Philosopher
Amia Srinivasan
Born (1984-12-20) 20 December 1984 (age 41)
Bahrain
EducationYale University (BA)
Corpus Christi College, Oxford (BPhil, DPhil)
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity College London
St John's College, Oxford
All Souls College, Oxford
ThesisThe Fragile Estate (2014)
Doctoral advisorJohn Hawthorne
Timothy Williamson
Main interests
Epistemology
Political philosophy
Feminist philosophy

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 graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy in 2007.[6][7] 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.[8] Her BPhil was completed in 2009 with a thesis titled Experimental Philosophy and Armchair Philosophy, supervised by John Hawthorne.[9] She completed her DPhil in 2014 with a thesis titled The Fragile Estate: Essays on Luminosity, Normativity and Metaphilosophy;[10] her doctoral supervisors were John Hawthorne and Timothy Williamson.[11]

Academic career

In 2009, she was named a examination fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.[12] In 2015, she was appointed as a lecturer in philosophy at University College London (UCL).[12] In 2016, she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for the project "At the Depths of Believing".[13][14] She has held visiting fellowships at the University of California, Los Angeles; Yale University;{{Citation needed|date=June 2026} >"Visiting Fellows". http://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/research-centers/nyip/visiting-fellows.html. </ref>

In October 2018, Srinivasan joined St John's College, Oxford, as a tutorial fellow in philosophy.[15] She was also an associate professor of philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, from 2018 to 2019.[12] In January 2020, she took up the appointment of Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford.[16] She was invited to give the first of the Winter Lectures sponsored by the London Review of Books in 2025, speaking about psychoanalytic theory.[17]

In 2023, Srinivasan ranked number forty-eight in the New Statesman’s list of influential British progressive political figures.[18]

Writing

Srinivasan was an associate editor for the philosophy journal Mind from 2015 to 2021[19] and has been associate editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy since 2023.[20][21]

Srinivasan is a contributing editor of the London Review of Books.[22]

In 2021, Srinivasan published a collection of essays entitled The Right to Sex.[23]

Bibliography

Books

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

Articles

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References

  1. ↑ "Amia Srinivasan" (in en). https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/person/amia-srinivasan. 
  2. ↑ "Srinivasan, Amia, 1984-". 2014-07-15. https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014093275.html. 
  3. ↑ Derbyshire, Jonathan (2020-01-25). "Amia Srinivasan: the Oxford philosopher on animal rights, abortion and the far-right". https://www.ft.com/content/232ba980-3caa-11ea-b232-000f4477fbca. 
  4. ↑ Tsjeng, Zing (2021-07-25). "Philosopher Amia Srinivasan Will Radically Change The Way You See Feminism, The #MeToo Movement – And Sex" (in en-GB). https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/amia-srinivasan. 
  5. ↑ Cooke, Rachel (2021-08-08). "Amia Srinivasan: 'Sex as a subject isn't weird. It's very, very serious'" (in en). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/08/amia-srinivasan-the-right-to-sex-interview. 
  6. ↑ "Yale boasts five Rhodes Scholars". Yale Bulletin and Calendar 35 (12). December 1, 2006. http://archives.news.yale.edu/v35.n12/story1.html. 
  7. ↑ Penaluna, Regan (2021-09-28). "Amia Srinivasan: 'Feminism is a political practice, not just a set of ideas'" (in en-US). https://www.guernicamag.com/feminism-political-practice-amia-srinivasan/. 
  8. ↑ "Amia Srinivasan Profile" (in en). http://rhodesproject.com/amia-srinivasan-profile. 
  9. ↑ Srinivasan, Amia (2009). Experimental philosophy and armchair philosophy (BPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
  10. ↑ Srinivasan, Amia (2013). The Fragile State: Essays on Luminosity, Normativity and Metaphilosophy (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  11. ↑ Aguilera, Diana (2022-05-09). "The Right to Sex: A Q&A with Amia Srinivasan" (in en). https://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/news/right-sex-qa-amia-srinivasan. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 "Professor Amia Srinivasan". https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/professor-amia-srinivasan. 
  13. ↑ "At the Depths of Believing" (in en). 2018-07-26. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/research/depths-of-believing. 
  14. ↑ "Grant listings" (in en). https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/listings?field_grant_scheme_target_id=13. 
  15. ↑ "Professor Amia Srinivasan". https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/prof-amia-srinivasan/. 
  16. ↑ Leiter, Brian (2019-07-29). "Amia Srinivasan to be next Chichele Professor of Social & Political Theory at Oxford" (in en-US). https://leiterreports.com/2019/07/29/amia-srinivasan-to-be-next-chichele-professor-of-social-political-theory-at-oxford/. 
  17. ↑ Srinivasan, Amia (2025-12-25). "The Impossible Patient" (in en). London Review of Books 47 (23). ISSN 0260-9592. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n23/amia-srinivasan/the-impossible-patient. 
  18. ↑ "The New Statesman's left power list" (in en-US). 2023-05-17. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2023/05/the-new-statesmans-left-power-list. 
  19. ↑ "Editorial_Board_and_Other_Officers | Mind". https://academic.oup.com/mind/pages/Editorial_Board_and_Other_Officers. 
  20. ↑ Weinberg, Justin (2023-04-27). "Wiley Removes Goodin as Editor of the Journal of Political Philosophy (Updated)" (in en-US). https://dailynous.com/2023/04/27/wiley-removes-goodin-as-editor-of-the-journal-of-political-philosophy/,%20https://dailynous.com/2023/04/27/wiley-removes-goodin-as-editor-of-the-journal-of-political-philosophy/. 
  21. ↑ "Editorial Team". https://politicalphilosophyjournal.org/editorialteam/. 
  22. ↑ "Amia Srinivasan". https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/amia-srinivasan. 
  23. ↑ Szalai, Jennifer (21 September 2021). "'The Right to Sex' Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/books/review-right-to-sex-amia-srinivasan.html. 
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