Tina Fernandes Botts

Tina Fernandes Botts is an American assistant professor of philosophy at California State University, Fresno. She is known for her work in legal hermeneutics,[1] intersectionality, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of race (particularly mixed-race theory).[2] She is the former chair of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on the Status of Black Philosophers (2013-2016).

Tina Fernandes Botts
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern Philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
Continental
Main interests
Philosophy of Law
Hermeneutics
Philosophy of Race
Feminist Philosophy
Ethics
Social & Political Philosophy
History of Philosophy

Previous posts include visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Oberlin College; fellow in law and philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;[3] and assistant professor of philosophy, and faculty associate and area leader in public policy and diversity, at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.[4]

Education and career

Botts earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Memphis[5] under the supervision of Thomas Nenon and Bill Lawson, her J.D. from Rutgers School of Law Camden [6] 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.[7] 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.[8] 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

Selected works
  • For Equals Only: Race, Equality, and the Equal Protection Clause, Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. ISBN 9781498501231
  • "Legal Hermeneutics," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015. ISSN 2161-0002[9]
  • Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience, Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. ISBN 9781498509428
  • "Antidiscrimination Law and the Multiracial Experience: A Reply to Nancy Leong" 10 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 191, Summer 2013.[10][11]
  • "Hermeneutics, Race, and Gender" in The Routledge Companion to Philosophical Hermeneutics, Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmuth Gander, eds., London: Taylor and Francis (2014).
  • Feminist Thought. 5th Edition, co-authored with Rosemarie Tong, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0813349954

References
  1. The Hermeneutics of Equal Protection Analysis, ISBN 978-1244753310, http://gradworks.umi.com/34/76/3476376.html
  2. "Mixed Race Studies » Search Results » tina botts".
  3. "Faculty | Philosophy | University of Michigan". Lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  4. "Welcome to Philosophy at UNC Charlotte | Department of Philosophy | UNC Charlotte". Philosophy.uncc.edu. 2014-04-23. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  5. "philosophy :: Welcome :: University of Memphis". Memphis.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  6. "camlaw.rutgers.edu". camlaw.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  7. "About | Department of Philosophy". Philosophy.umd.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  8. Botts, Tina (1970-01-01). "Tina Botts | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor - Academia.edu". Ii-umich.academia.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  9. "Legal Hermeneutics". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  10. "Hastings Race & Poverty Law Journal (HRPLJ) - UCHastings". Uchastings.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-07-25. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
  11. ""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.
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