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]
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| Alma mater | Oberlin College, University College London, Somerville College, Oxford, The Queen's College, Oxford |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | St Hilda's College, Oxford, Bedford College, London |
| Doctoral advisor | John McDowell |
Main interests | Philosophy of language, philosophy of the mind |
Career
editAvramides 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 The 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]
Education
editAvramides 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.[1]
Publications
editBooks
- 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
edit- ^ a b c "Anita Avramides". Philosophy, Oxford philosophy.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 11 July 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ^ a b "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.