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Amia Srinivasan

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Amia Srinivasan
Born (1984-12-20) 20 December 1984 (age 41)
Bahrain
Education
EducationYale University (BA)
Corpus Christi College, Oxford (BPhil, DPhil)
ThesisThe Fragile Estate (2014)
John Hawthorne
Timothy Williamson
Philosophical work
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Analytic philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity College London
St John's College, Oxford
All Souls College, Oxford
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

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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

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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;[citation needed] Yale University;[citation needed] and New York University.[15]

In October 2018, Srinivasan joined St John's College, Oxford, as a tutorial fellow in philosophy.[16] 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.[17] She was invited to give the first of the Winter Lectures sponsored by the London Review of Books in 2025, speaking about psychoanalytic theory.[18]

In 2023, Srinivasan ranked number forty-eight in the New Statesman’s list of influential British progressive political figures.[19]

Writing

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Srinivasan was an associate editor for the philosophy journal Mind from 2015 to 2021[20] and has been associate editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy since 2023.[21][22]

Srinivasan is a contributing editor of the London Review of Books.[23]

In 2021, Srinivasan published a collection of essays entitled The Right to Sex.[24]

Bibliography

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Books

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

Articles

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References

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  1. ↑ "Amia Srinivasan". University of Oxford Department of Politics & International Relations. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
  2. ↑ "Srinivasan, Amia, 1984-". Library of Congress Linked Data Service. 15 July 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
  3. ↑ Derbyshire, Jonathan (25 January 2020). "Amia Srinivasan: the Oxford philosopher on animal rights, abortion and the far-right". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 25 January 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  4. ↑ Tsjeng, Zing (25 July 2021). "Philosopher Amia Srinivasan Will Radically Change The Way You See Feminism, The #MeToo Movement – And Sex". British Vogue. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  5. ↑ Cooke, Rachel (8 August 2021). "Amia Srinivasan: 'Sex as a subject isn't weird. It's very, very serious'". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  6. ↑ "Yale boasts five Rhodes Scholars". Yale Bulletin and Calendar. Vol. 35, no. 12. 1 December 2006.
  7. ↑ Penaluna, Regan (28 September 2021). "Amia Srinivasan: 'Feminism is a political practice, not just a set of ideas'". Guernica. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
  8. ↑ "Amia Srinivasan Profile". The Rhodes Project. Archived from the original on 25 January 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  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 (9 May 2022). "The Right to Sex: A Q&A with Amia Srinivasan". McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
  12. 1 2 3 "Professor Amia Srinivasan". All Souls College. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
  13. ↑ "At the Depths of Believing". UCL Philosophy. 26 July 2018. Archived from the original on 9 August 2018.
  14. ↑ "Grant listings". The Leverhulme Trust. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
  15. ↑ "Visiting Fellows". New York Institute of Philosophy. Archived from the original on 2 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  16. ↑ "Professor Amia Srinivasan". St John's College. Archived from the original on 13 October 2019.
  17. ↑ Leiter, Brian (29 July 2019). "Amia Srinivasan to be next Chichele Professor of Social & Political Theory at Oxford". Leiter Reports. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
  18. ↑ Srinivasan, Amia (25 December 2025). "The Impossible Patient". London Review of Books. Vol. 47, no. 23. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
  19. ↑ "The New Statesman's left power list". New Statesman. 17 May 2023. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  20. ↑ "Editorial_Board_and_Other_Officers | Mind". Oxford Academic. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  21. ↑ Weinberg, Justin (27 April 2023). "Wiley Removes Goodin as Editor of the Journal of Political Philosophy (Updated)". Daily Nous. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
  22. ↑ "Editorial Team". Political Philosophy. Retrieved 22 June 2026.
  23. ↑ "Amia Srinivasan". London Review of Books. Archived from the original on 31 July 2019. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  24. ↑ Szalai, Jennifer (21 September 2021). "'The Right to Sex' Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
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