Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Ásta.
Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir
Born (1969-10-05) October 5, 1969 (age 51)
NationalityIcelandic
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir (born October 5, 1969), who publishes as Ásta, is an Icelandic philosopher. She is a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University.

Born in Reykjavík, Ásta has a BA in mathematics and philosophy from Brandeis University in 1992, AM in philosophy from Harvard University, 1997, and PhD in philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. She was a host lecturer at Vassar College in New York in late 2004 and early 2005 and has taught at San Francisco State University since the autumn of 2005.

Ásta is predominantly concerned with metaphysics, and the philosophy of language and epistemology, ethics and aesthetics.[1] She has authored papers on feminist metaphysics such as The Metaphysics of Sex and Gender.[2]

Ásta's first book appeared in 2018, Categories We Live By, published by Oxford University Press.[3][4][5][6]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Ásta". Ásta. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  2. ^ Witt, Charlotte (3 December 2010). Feminist Metaphysics: Explorations in the Ontology of Sex, Gender and the Self. Springer. p. 47. ISBN 978-90-481-3782-4. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  3. ^ Ásta (2018). Categories We Live by. The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, & Other Social Categories. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190256807.
  4. ^ Burman, Åsa (June 5, 2019). "Categories We Live By: The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
  5. ^ Jenkins, Katharine (November 6, 2018). "Categories We Live By". The Philosophers' Magazine (83): 107–108. doi:10.5840/tpm201883112.
  6. ^ Barnes, Elizabeth; Andler, Matthew (July 13, 2019). "Categories We Live by: The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories, by Ásta". Mind. 129 (515): 160. doi:10.1093/mind/fzz041.
Retrieved from ""