Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir

Born|  (1969-10-05) October 5, 1969 (age 56)

Reykjavík, Iceland

Alma mater| Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Occupation| Philosopher
Website| https://scholars.duke.edu/person/Asta.Sveinsdottir

Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir (born October 5, 1969), who publishes as Ásta, is an Icelandic philosopher. She was a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and is currently a professor at Duke University.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Education
* 2 Career
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Education

Born in Reykjavík, Ásta has a BA in mathematics and philosophy from Brandeis University in 1992, MA in philosophy from Harvard University in 1997, and a PhD in philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 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. In 2022, she started teaching philosophy at Duke University.[1]

## Career

Ásta is predominantly concerned with metaphysics, the philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics.[2] She has authored papers on feminist metaphysics such as The Metaphysics of Sex and Gender.[3]

Ásta's first book appeared in 2018, Categories We Live By, published by Oxford University Press.[4][5][6][7]

## See also

* Hypatia transracialism controversy

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Weinberg, Justin (2022-05-20). "Ásta from San Francisco State to Duke - Daily Nous" (in en-US). https://dailynous.com/2022/05/20/asta-from-san-francisco-state-to-duke/, https://dailynous.com/2022/05/20/asta-from-san-francisco-state-to-duke/.
2. ↑ "Ásta" (in en). http://www.astaphilosophy.com/.
3. ↑ 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=FU2-Ha0d77wC&pg=PA47. Retrieved 16 July 2012.
4. ↑ Ásta (2018). Categories We Live by. The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, & Other Social Categories. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190256807.
5. ↑ Burman, Åsa (June 5, 2019). "Categories We Live By: The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/categories-we-live-by-the-construction-of-sex-gender-race-and-other-social-categories/.
6. ↑ Jenkins, Katharine (November 6, 2018). "Categories We Live By". The Philosophers' Magazine (83): 107–108. doi:10.5840/tpm201883112. https://www.philosophersmag.com/opinion/193-categories-we-live-by.
7. ↑ 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. https://philpapers.org/archive/BARCWL.pdf.

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