Contact details
- Name:
- Sophie Botros
- Position/Fellowship type:
- Associate Fellow
- Institute:
- Institute of Philosophy
- Email address:
- sophie.botros@sas.ac.uk
- Website:
- https://philosophy.sas.ac.uk/people/sophie-botros
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- Philosophy
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
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Dr Sophie Botros (Opens in new window)has a B.A. in Philosophy with First Class Honours (Birkbeck College, London) and a Ph.D “Freedom of the Will” (King’s College, London, where she was supervised by Professor Peter Winch). She has held lecturing posts in the philosophy departments of the University of Essex, and of Stirling. She was Lecturer in Medical Ethics, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, King’s College, London from 1987-1995 where she established a Public Affairs Unit, and organized, and chaired, meetings in the Houses of Commons and Lords, during the passage of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill through Parliament.
Dr Botros’s newest book Truth, Time and History: a Philosophical Inquiry was published by Bloomsbury Academic on 21st September 2017.