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Tina Fernandes Botts | |
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Philosophical work | |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic Continental |
Main interests | Philosophy of law Hermeneutics Feminist philosophy Ethics Critical race theory Social philosophy History of philosophy |
Tina Fernandes Botts is an American legal scholar and philosophy professor currently teaching at Washburn University School of Law. [1]
She is known for her work in constitutional law, legal hermeneutics, [2] intersectionality, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of race (particularly mixed-race theory). [3] Previous posts include Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College; Visiting Professor of Law at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law; Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno; Visiting Assistant Professor of philosophy at Oberlin College; Fellow in Law and Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; [4] and Assistant Professor of Philosophy, and Faculty Associate and Area Leader in Public Policy and Diversity, at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. [5]
Botts earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Memphis [6] under the supervision of Thomas Nenon, her J.D. from Rutgers School of Law, [7] and her B.A. in philosophy with a minor in physics from the University of Maryland at College Park. [8]
Botts' research areas are constitutional law, philosophy of law (including critical race theory), philosophical hermeneutics, philosophy of race, feminist philosophy, ethical theory, and applied ethics. [9]