Anita Avramides
| Anita Avramides | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater |
Oberlin College, University College, London, Somerville College, Oxford, Queen’s College, Oxford |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions |
St Hilda's College, Oxford, Bedford College, London |
Main interests | philosophy of language, philosophy of the mind |
Anita Avramides is a British philosopher whose work focuses on the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of the mind. She is a reader at the University of Oxford, based at St. Hilda's College, where she is Southover Manor Trust Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy. Since 2014, she has served as Vice Chair of the Philosophy Faculty at Oxford.[1][2]
Career
Avramides has worked on the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of the mind, most recently focusing on the knowledge of other minds. For Avramides, this question is at the intersection of the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and metaphysics. She believes that the 'problem' of other minds is conceptual, rather than epistemological.[2][3]
Avramides is Southover Manor Trust Fellow in Philosophy, at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She has also been a full-time lecturer at Queen's College, Oxford, and a visiting lecturer at Bedford College, London.
She has held part-time lecturer positions at Balliol College, Exeter College and Oriel College, Oxford.[1]
In 2016, Avramides' name was "hastily" added to an A-level philosophy syllabus in Great Britain after an "equality analysis" found that not a single woman philosopher had been included in the original syllabus.[4]
Education
Avramides received her doctorate (D.Phil.) from the University of Oxford, Somerville and Queen's College. She did her M.Phil. from University College, London, and completed her undergraduate BA degree from Oberlin College, United States.
Publications
Books
- Meaning and Mind: An Examination of a Gricean Account of Language MIT Press, 1989, ISBN 9780262511773
- Other Minds. Routledge. 14 December 2000. ISBN 978-1-135-19938-8.
- Women of Ideas (ed.) (1995) Duckworth.
References
- 1 2 "Anita Avramides". Philosophy, Oxford philosophy.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- 1 2 "Dr. Anita Avramides". St. Hilda's, Oxford sthildas.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ↑ "Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture: Dr Anita Avramides (University of Oxford), Myself and Others". University of Wolverhampton wlv.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ↑ Petre, Jonathan (5 March 2016). "Women are left off the A-level philosophy syllabus by the Education Secretary even though she's also Minister for Women". The Daily Mail dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2016.