Amia Srinivasan


Amia Srinivasan 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.
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Early life and education

Srinivasan was born on 20 December 1984 in Bahrain to Indian parents and later lived in Taiwan, Singapore, New York, and London. She studied for an undergraduate degree in philosophy at Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude in 2007. This was followed by postgraduate Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees as a Rhodes Scholar at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. 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: 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. In 2015, she was appointed as a lecturer in philosophy at University College London. In 2016, she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for the project "At the Depths of Believing". She has held visiting fellowships at the University of California, Los Angeles, Yale University, and New York University.
In October 2018, Srinivasan joined St John's College, Oxford as a tutorial fellow in philosophy. 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. Invited to give the first of the Winter Lectures sponsored by the London Review of Books in 2025, she proclaimed on that occasion that "psychoanalytic theory is returning to the cultural centre" and affirmed that "Despite more than a century of debate about the epistemic credentials of psychoanalysis, I take its explanatory power to be self-evident."
In 2023, Srinivasan ranked number forty-eight in the New Statesman’s Left Power List 2023 of influential British political figures.

Writing

Srinivasan was an associate editor both for the philosophy journal Mind from 2015 to 2021 and The Journal of Political Philosophy in 2023.
Srinivasan is a contributing editor of the London Review of Books.
In 2021, Srinivasan published a collection of essays in a book entitled The Right to Sex.

Works