Contributors
- Contributors
tina fernandes botts is a fellow in law and philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in academic year 2014–2015. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Botts was an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Botts has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Memphis and a J.D. from Rutgers University Law School, Camden. Her scholarship centers on the reexamination of laws and other social, political, metaphysical, and epistemological paradigms from the vantage point of the marginalized and oppressed, particularly racialized minority groups. Her publications include, “Antidiscrimination Law and the Multiracial Experience: A Reply to Nancy Leong,” 10 Hastings Poverty Law Journal 191, Summer 2013; and “Hermeneutics, Race, and Gender” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophical Hermeneutics, edited by Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmuth Gander, London: Taylor and Francis (forthcoming 2015). She is currently at work on a monograph under contract with Lexington Books, The Concept of Race, Aristotle’s Proportional Equality, and Equal Protection Law, a philosophical inquiry into the simultaneous erosion of equal protection of the law for African Americans and the rise of the concept of biological race in equal protection jurisprudence.
liam kofi bright is a Ph.D. student in philosophy at the Carnegie Mellon University. He holds an MSc in Philosophy of Science from the London School of Economics. His research interests are in the philosophy of science, focusing on the social structure of science and the use of formal, especially decision theoretic, methods in the social sciences. [End Page 243]
myisha cherry is a Ph.D. student in philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her research interests are in moral psychology and political philosophy.
jonathan kaplan is an associate professor of philosophy at Oregon State University. His primary research interests include the philosophy of biology and social and political philosophy. He has recently published (both alone and with colleagues) several articles on the relationship between modern genomic technologies and the concept of “race” in contemporary social discourse, as well as on issues surrounding the roles that race plays in arenas such as medicine and housing.
christopher lebron is an assistant professor of African-American studies and philosophy at Yale University and the author of The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time, published by Oxford University Press.
ludovica lorusso is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sassari (Italy). She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Padua and her M.S. in biology at the University of Milano. Her areas of specialization and research are philosophy of biology, philosophy of race, philosophy of science, visual perception, and cognitive psychology. Some of her notable publications are The Justification of Race in Biological Explanation, Clustering Humans: On Biological Boundaries, and Visual Judgments of Kinship: An Alternative Perspective.
guntur mallarangeng is currently a senior undergraduate student at the University of San Francisco, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in political science and minors in philosophy and legal studies. He is expected to graduate in May 2015, and is interested to pursue a legal education after graduation. What is the State of Blacks in Philosophy? is his first publication, while working as a research assistant for Professor Quayshawn Spencer.
quayshawn spencer is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at Stanford University, and he also holds an M.S. in biology from Stanford, an M.A. in philosophy from Tufts, and a B.A. in chemistry and philosophy from Cornell. His specialization in philosophy lies in philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of race.
rasmus grønfeldt winther, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, investigates the promises and perils of scientific theory. He has lectured and published on a wide variety of topics in philosophy of science as well as on science more generally. He is the History and Philosophy of Biology book series editor at Pickering and Chatto (London), and PI of the “Genomics and Philosophy of Race” Research Cluster, a collaborative research project involving Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC Santa Cruz (http://ihr.ucsc...
