Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir
Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir (born October 5, 1969 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic philosopher living in San Francisco, USA. She is the 4th Icelandic woman to have completed a doctorate in philosophy and the first in metaphysics. She has a BA in mathematics and philosophy from Brandeis University, 1992, AM in philosophy from Harvard University, 1997, and PhD in philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2004. She was a host lecturer at Vassar College in New York during the winter of 2004-2005 and has been a lecturer in philosophy at San Francisco State University since the autumn of 2005.
Sveinsdóttir 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]
References
- ^ "Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir". San Francisco State University. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
- ^ 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.
- 1969 births
- 20th-century philosophers
- 21st-century philosophers
- Brandeis University alumni
- Epistemologists
- Ethicists
- Harvard University alumni
- Icelandic expatriates in the United States
- Icelandic philosophers
- Living people
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Metaphysicians
- Philosophers of art
- Philosophers of language
- People from Reykjavík
- University of San Francisco faculty
- Icelandic women philosophers