Tina Fernandes Botts
| Tina Fernandes Botts | |
|---|---|
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| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School |
Analytic Continental |
Main interests |
Philosophy of Law Hermeneutics Philosophy of Race Feminist Philosophy Ethics Social & Political Philosophy History of Philosophy |
Tina Fernandes Botts is Co-editor of the American Philosophical Association's Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Chair of the APA's Committee on the Status of Black Philosophers[1] and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Oberlin College. Previously, she was a Fellow in Law and Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;[2] and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Associate and Area Leader in Public Policy and Diversity at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.[3] Botts is known for her work in legal hermeneutics,[4] intersectionality, and mixed race studies.[5]
Education and career
Botts earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Memphis[6] under the supervision of Thomas Nenon and Bill Lawson, her J.D. from Rutgers School of Law Camden [7] under the supervision of Dennis Patterson, and her B.A. in philosophy with a minor in physics from the University of Maryland at College Park.[8] Her work is inter-traditional (analytic, continental) interdisciplinary (philosophy, law), and grounded in the history of philosophy (ancient, modern).
Research areas
Botts' research areas are philosophy of law, philosophical hermeneutics, philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, ethical theory, applied ethics, and the history of philosophy.[9] Her scholarship centers on the reexamination of laws and other paradigms (ethical, social, political, metaphysical, and epistemological) from the vantage point of the marginalized and oppressed, particularly racialized minority groups. Where a given paradigm is found lacking, Botts advocates alternative approaches or paradigm shifts designed to more fully respect these populations. The suggested paradigm shifts are grounded in insights obtained from philosophical hermeneutics, critical legal theory, and general themes in metaphysics and epistemology as found in the history of philosophy. Key to Botts’ research is the hermeneutical insight that there is an intimate connection between what we take things to be (e.g., a race) and what we take things to mean (e.g., a law), and that both are heavily influenced by what Heidegger called “being-in-the-world,” that is, by context, history, social forces, and the identity of the knower and/or the perceiver of reality.
Awards and fellowships
- 2015-2016: Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges Postdoctoral Fellow, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
- 2014-2015: Fellow in Law and Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- 2009-2010: Dissertation Teaching Fellow in Law and Philosophy, Arkansas State University
- 2009-2010: Provost’s Doctoral Fellow, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
- 1992-1993: Legal Fellow, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Washington, DC
- 1991-1992: C. Clyde Ferguson Full Tuition Scholarship, Rutgers School of Law, Camden, NJ
Selected works
- “Legal Hermeneutics,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ISSN 2161-0002, http://www.iep.utm.edu/leg-herm/, 2015.
- Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience, Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498509428/Philosophy-and-the-Mixed-Race-Experience
- "Antidiscrimination Law and the Multiracial Experience: A Reply to Nancy Leong" 10 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 191, Summer 2013.[10][11]
- The Concept of Race, Aristotle's Proportional Equality, and the Equal Protection Clause (under contract with Lexington Books and in progress).
- "Hermeneutics, Race, and Gender" in The Routledge Companion to Philosophical Hermeneutics, Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmuth Gander, eds., London: Taylor and Francis (2014).
- Philosophy of Race, The by Albert Atkin, Acumen Publishing, 2012, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, June 2013 (book review)[12]
- Why Race and Gender Still Matter: An Intersectional Approach, Namita Goswami, Maeve M. O’Donovan, and Lisa Yount, editors, Pickering and Chatto, 2014 (book review, Hypatia Online Reviews, forthcoming)[13]
- “Women of Color Feminisms” (with Rosemarie Tong) in Rosemarie Tong’s Feminist Thought. 4th Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2013 ISBN 978-0813348414
References
- ↑ "The American Philosophical Association". Apaonline.org. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
- ↑ "Faculty | Philosophy | University of Michigan". Lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
- ↑ "Welcome to Philosophy at UNC Charlotte | Department of Philosophy | UNC Charlotte". Philosophy.uncc.edu. 2014-04-23. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
- ↑ The Hermeneutics of Equal Protection Analysis, ISBN 978-1244753310, http://gradworks.umi.com/34/76/3476376.html
- ↑ http://www.mixedracestudies.org/wordpress/index.php?s=tina+botts&cat=0
- ↑ "philosophy :: Welcome :: University of Memphis". Memphis.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
- ↑ "camlaw.rutgers.edu". camlaw.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
- ↑ "About | Department of Philosophy". Philosophy.umd.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
- ↑ Botts, Tina (1970-01-01). "Tina Botts | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor - Academia.edu". Ii-umich.academia.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
- ↑ "Hastings Race & Poverty Law Journal (HRPLJ) - UCHastings". Uchastings.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
- ↑ ""Antidiscrimination Law and the Multiracial Experience: A Reply to Nanc" by Tina F. Botts J.D., Ph.D". Works.bepress.com. 2012-11-09. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
- ↑ ENR // AgencyND // University of Notre Dame (2013-06-10). "The Philosophy of Race // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame". Ndpr.nd.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
- ↑ "Hypatia - Wiley Online Library". Onlinelibrary.wiley.com. Retrieved 2014-08-01.