Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir

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Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir
Born (1969-10-05) October 5, 1969 (age 54)
Reykjavík, Iceland
NationalityIcelandic
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir (born October 5, 1969), who publishes as Ásta, is an

philosopher. She was a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and is currently a professor at Duke University
.

Born in

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, the philosophy of language, 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. ISBN 978-90-481-3782-4
    . Retrieved 16 July 2012.
  3. 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. doi:10.5840/tpm201883112
    .
  6. doi:10.1093/mind/fzz041
    .
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