Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir
Ásta Kristjana Sveinsdóttir, who publishes as Ásta, is an Icelandic philosopher. She is a professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University.
Born in Reykjavík, Ásta has a BA in mathematics and philosophy from Brandeis University in 1992, AM in philosophy from Harvard University, 1997, and 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, and the philosophy of language and epistemology, ethics and aesthetics. She has authored papers on feminist metaphysics such as The Metaphysics of Sex and Gender.
Ásta's first book appeared in 2018, Categories We Live By, published by Oxford University Press.
