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Dr Anita Avramides, Reader in the Philosophy of Mind and Southover Manor Trust Fellow

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DPhil, Somerville and The Queen’s Colleges, Oxford; MPhil, University College, London; BA, Oberlin College

 

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Dr Anita Avramides

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Dr Avramides was educated in the United States and Britain. She received her B.A. in philosophy from Oberlin College, an M Phil in Philosophy from University College London, and a D. Phil. from The Queen's and Somerville College. She has been teaching at St Hilda's since 1990. From 2010 - 2013 she will serve as Vice Principal of St Hilda's College.

Research Interests:

Dr Avramides has published work in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. Her most recent research has been on the question of our knowledge of other minds. This question lies at the intersection of issues in the philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics, and she has pursued her research accordingly. She has recently been interested in assessing the suggestion that we know other minds through perception. Overall, she is concerned to defend the idea that the 'problem' of other minds is conceptual, rather than epistemological.

Courses Taught: 

Dr Avramides teaches a wide range of undergraduate courses including the philosophy of mind, the history of philosophy, epistemology, and moral philosophy. She is one of the lecturers in the undergraduate core lecture series for philosophy of mind, and for the core lectures on the history philosophy (Locke and Berkeley).

Selective Publications

Books:

Meaning and Mind: An Examination of a Gricean Account of Language, MIT Bradford Books; Other Minds , Routledge; Problems of Philosophy Series Women of Ideas ( ed.), Duckworth.

Selected Articles:

“Davidson and the New Skeptical Problem”, in D. Davidson: Truth, Meaning and Knowledge, ed. U.M. Zeglen (Routledge); “Grice, Davidson and the Social Aspects of Meaning”, in Paul Grice’s Heritage, ed. G Cosenza (Brepols); “The Bigger Picture”, Philosophical Books, Vol. 45, No. 2 April 2002; “Thomas Nagel: The View from Nowhere”, in Central Works of Philosophy, ed. J. Shand (Acumen); “Other Minds”, Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind, ed. B. McLaughlin & A Beckermann (Oxford University Press)

Forthcoming:

“Skepticism about Knowledge of Other Minds”, The Routledge Companion to Epistemology, ed. S. Bernecker & D . Pritchard; “Abiding Intentions”, Essays in Honour of Stephen Schiffer, ed. G. Ostertag (MIT).