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 an American legal scholar and philosophy professor currently teaching at Washburn University School of Law. [1] She is known for her work in 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] She is the former chair of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on the Status of Black Philosophers (2013-2016).
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] Her scholarship is inter-traditional (analytic, continental) interdisciplinary (philosophy, law), and grounded in the history of philosophy. During her brief time at Oberlin, she was one of several professors that the ABUSUA group demanded placement on the tenure track at Oberlin as part of their list of demands (https://silo.tips/download/oberlin-colleges-abusua-black-student-union-institutional-d).
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] 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 context, history, social forces, and the identity of the knower and/or the perceiver of reality.
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