Ronya Ramrath

Broadly, I am interested in questions like: what are the ethical implications of our social and cultural limitations as knowers? How do we navigate the ways our epistemic worlds are structured by power? And how is philosophy as a discipline affected by its own genealogy?

In 2025 I won the Alpine Fellowship Philosophy Prize, and in 2024 the Maria Baghramian Prize for early career research excellence in philosophy.

Originally from Australia (I was born on Noongar land), I went on to complete a BA in Philosophy and Mathematics at Heidelberg University with a thesis on self-reflexivity in philosophy. During my undergraduate, I also spent a year at the University of Cambridge, where I completed Part II of the Philosophy Tripos and wrote a dissertation on the philosophy of translation supervised by Simon Blackburn. I later returned to Cambridge to complete an MPhil in Philosophy, with a thesis on Indigenous knowledge systems and epistemic injustice supervised by Rae Langton. In between degrees, I briefly worked on the Muruwari language corpus with Roy Barker Jr and Jane Simpson at the Australian National University (which you can read about here).

Apart from my academic philosophical work, I have written for The Philosopher on the Australian immigration detention centres. I have also been interviewed on epistemic injustice in the Indigenous Australian context here.

Currently, I also work as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, in the context of which I translated the monograph The Universalism of Human Rights (previously published under Mende, Janne (2021): Der Universalismus der Menschenrechte, Stuttgart: utb).

You can find my cv here. My email address is ronya.ramrath [at] philosophy.ox.ac.uk.