I work on topics in epistemology, ethics, metaphilosophy, and social and political philosophy. I am currently thinking about the role of anger in politics, the relationship between philosophy and feminism, and the genealogical contingency of our beliefs.
- Associate Professor of Philosophy, St John’s College, Oxford (from to )
- Lecturer in Philosophy, University College London (from to )
- Examination Fellow (), then Fifty-Pound Fellow (), All Souls College
- Postgraduate at Corpus Christi College and Christ Church, Oxford (from to )
- Undergraduate at Yale University, USA (from to )
- Epistemology
- Philosophical methodology
- Ethics
- Feminist philosophy
- Rhodes Scholarship ().
The idea that it is impossible to know what non-human animals are feeling or thinking can serve as cover for their exploitation, domination and extermination. Do we really know nothing of how animals, even animals as physiologically different from us as lizards or bats, feel about the burning of their forests, the melting of their ice floes, the contamination of their water? Or is it that we do know, and simply fear what acknowledging it would mean? In sex of all things, where humans so often misconstrue what other humans want, where the temptation to project our fantasies and images onto the other is always pressing, where coercion and control figure all too easily – can we ever trust ourselves to know, really know, what an animal wants? Perhaps one day there will be members of the animal species Homo sapiens who are able to have sex with other animal species in a way that has nothing to do with the will to dominate, fetishise or transgress. If so, I think, those people would be of our species, but not of our kind.
Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love
by Joanna Bourke.
Do we really know nothing of how animals, even animals as phy
Interview with Professor Amia Srinivasan
Questions read by Ashley Singh, alicehank winham, Aamir Kaderbhai, and Jack Sagar, answers read by Katherine Franco, and audio recording compiled by Ashley Singh.
Questions written and edited by alicehank winham, Jack Sagar, Steven Diggin, and Ashley Singh
1. How ought we be doing philosophy?Is responsible theorising possible?
I don’t think there is one single ideal of ‘good’ philosophy, though there is bad philosophy, and all good philosophy had some things in common: imagination, rigour, originality. In general, I think we should be doing philosophy in a way that is at once disciplined and playful. In the case of moral, social and political philosophy in particular, I think we should be theorising in a way that is responsive to the way the world really is, in all its non-ideal dimensions, and that draws on the vast bodies of theory produced by feminists, critical theorists, sociologists, labour historians, and so on. That’s not a transhistorical statement about what social and political philosophy should be like, but a claim about what’s apt for our current moment.
Should theorising be thought of as something th
I am the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford. Previously I was an associate professor of philosophy at St John’s College, Oxford, and before that a lecturer in philosophy at University College London.
I completed my BPhil and DPhil in Philosophy at Oxford, and before that I did a BA at Yale. I work on topics in political philosophy, epistemology, the history and theory of feminism, and metaphilosophy.
My first book, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-first Century, was published in It was an instant Sunday Times bestseller, winner of the Blackwell’s Book of the Year, and has been shortlisted for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Orwell Prize.
I’m currently working on a second book, on the practice of critical genealogy, entitled The Contingent World: Genealogy, Epistemology, Politics. I’m also thinking about the place of identity-based movements in the Left, the philosophy of history, and animals.
My academic work has been published in The Philosophical Review, Journal of Political Philosophy, Yale Law Journal, The Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society and Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, am
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