Tina Fernandes Botts

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|region = Western philosophy

|era = Contemporary philosophy

|name = Tina Fernandes Botts

|school_tradition = Analytic
Continental

|main_interests = Philosophy of Law
Hermeneutics
Philosophy of Race
Feminist Philosophy
Ethics
Social & Political Philosophy
History of Philosophy

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Tina Fernandes Botts is an American legal scholar and philosophy professor currently teaching at Washburn University School of Law. {{cite web |url=https://www.washburnlaw.edu/our-faculty/tina-botts/ |title=Washburn Law School |website=washburnlaw.edu}} She is known for her work in constitutional law, legal hermeneutics,The Hermeneutics of Equal Protection Analysis, {{ISBN|978-1244753310}}, http://gradworks.umi.com/34/76/3476376.html intersectionality, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of race (particularly mixed-race theory).{{Cite web | url=http://www.mixedracestudies.org/wordpress/index.php?s=tina+botts&cat=0 | title=Mixed Race Studies » Search Results » tina botts}} 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;{{cite web|url=http://www.lsa.umich.edu/philosophy/people/faculty/ci.bottstina_ci.detail |title=Faculty | Philosophy | University of Michigan |publisher=Lsa.umich.edu |date= |access-date=2014-08-01}} and Assistant Professor of Philosophy, and Faculty Associate and Area Leader in Public Policy and Diversity, at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.{{cite web|url=https://philosophy.uncc.edu/ |title=Welcome to Philosophy at UNC Charlotte | Department of Philosophy | UNC Charlotte |publisher=Philosophy.uncc.edu |date=2014-04-23 |access-date=2014-08-01}}

Education and career

Botts earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Memphis{{cite web|url=http://www.memphis.edu/philosophy/ |title=philosophy :: Welcome :: University of Memphis |publisher=Memphis.edu |date= |access-date=2014-08-01}} under the supervision of Thomas Nenon, her J.D. from Rutgers School of Law,{{cite web|url=https://camlaw.rutgers.edu/ |title=camlaw.rutgers.edu |publisher=camlaw.rutgers.edu |date= |access-date=2014-08-01}} and her B.A. in philosophy with a minor in physics from the University of Maryland at College Park.{{cite web|url=http://philosophy.umd.edu/about |title=About | Department of Philosophy |publisher=Philosophy.umd.edu |date= |access-date=2014-08-01}}

Research areas

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.{{cite web |last=Botts |first=Tina |url=https://ii-umich.academia.edu/TinaBotts |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140715025135/http://ii-umich.academia.edu/TinaBotts |url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-07-15 |title=Tina Botts | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor - Academia.edu |publisher=Ii-umich.academia.edu |date=1970-01-01 |access-date=2014-08-01 }}

Selected works

{{cite book |title=For Equals Only: Race, Equality, and the Equal Protection Clause |publisher=Lexington |year=2018 |isbn=9781498501231}}
"Legal Hermeneutics," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015. {{ISSN|2161-0002}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.iep.utm.edu/leg-herm/|title=Legal Hermeneutics|last=|first=|date=|website=Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}
{{cite book |title=Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience |publisher=Lexington Books |year= 2016 |isbn=9781498509428|editor1-first=Tina Fernandes |editor1-last=Botts}}
"Antidiscrimination Law and the Multiracial Experience: A Reply to Nancy Leong" 10 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 191, Summer 2013.{{cite web |url=http://www.uchastings.edu/student-life/organizations/rplj/index.php |title=Hastings Race & Poverty Law Journal (HRPLJ) - UCHastings |publisher=Uchastings.edu |date= |access-date=2014-08-01 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725035306/https://uchastings.edu/student-life/organizations/rplj/index.php |archive-date=2014-07-25 }}{{cite web|url=http://works.bepress.com/tina_botts/1/ |title="Antidiscrimination Law and the Multiracial Experience: A Reply to Nanc" by Tina F. Botts J.D., Ph.D |publisher=Works.bepress.com |date=2012-11-09 |access-date=2014-08-01}}
"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

External links

[https://www.washburnlaw.edu/profiles/botts-tina.html/ Faculty Profile Washburn Law]
[https://www.whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com/tina-fernandes-botts What is it Like to be a Philosopher]
[https://politicalphilosopher.net/2016/10/21/featured-philosopher-tina-fernandes-botts Politicalphilosopher]
[https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/african-american-philosophers-and-philosophy-9781350057951/ African American Philosophers and Philosophy, Table 1]

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Category:21st-century American philosophers

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Category:University of Maryland, College Park alumni

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Category:Scholars of feminist philosophy

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