I am a DPhil candidate in Philosophy at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford.

My areas of interests are in Moral Philosophy (esp. virtue ethics), Moral Psychology (esp. social emotions, practical reasoning, practical identity), Existentialism (esp. Sartre and Beauvoir) and Feminist Theory.

My DPhil thesis, supervised by Dr. Daniela Dover, asks what is it like to be a self- and other-interpreting creature? And what sort of normativity could be drawn from this condition? Its tentative title is ‘Dramaturgical Existentialism.’

Email me at asia.sakchatchawan@philosophy.ox.ac.uk 

You can download my CV here.


Research 


Publications

A Dramaturgical Conception of Authentic Living, MPhil Stud thesis, University College London. (2023)

'An Aristotelian Theory of Evil', PhilnoUS (March 2021).

'A Good Politician is Dispositioned to Get One's Hands Dirty', Juncture: The University of Manchester Undergraduate ​Journal in Politics (2021).

Defining Political Evil: Insights from an Aristotelian Theory of Evil, undergraduate dissertation for BASS in ​Philosophy and Politics, University of Manchester (awarded the Norman Geras Prize).


Work in Progress

‘Excellent Agency: Authenticity as Virtue, Nihilism and Seriousness as Opposite Vices’

‘Sartre’s Ego as Dramaturgical Practical Identity’

‘The Beloved’s Search for Ontological Intimacy: do you even love me if you don’t truly know me?’

'A Wrong Face Theory of Shame'

'An Aristotelian Theory of Evil: evil people can do non-evil things, non-evil people can do evil things'


Teaching 

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

Political Theory 

Practical Ethics 

Ethics 

Feminist Theory 

Other 

I like to draw and paint when I don’t do philosophy. Visit my instagram page here.




To keep healthy, I play tennis for Oxford Women’s Blues team. Here is a photo after we beat Cambridge at Varsity 2024: