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Name: Catherine Botha
Location: B Ring 706, Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Tel: 011 559 3403
Email:听cbotha@uj.ac.za
About Prof Catherine Botha
Supervision topics: Aesthetics; philosophy of art; nineteenth and twentieth century continental philosophy, esp, the work of Heidegger and Nietzsche; feminisms; philosophy of mind; philosophy of technology, esp the ethics and aesthetics of AI; animal ethics; bioethics.
Full professor in Philosophy at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg in South Africa, Catherine joined UJ Philosophy in 2009. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from Radboud 欧美福利100000 Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
Her research is focused mainly on issues in ethics and aesthetics, with a special focus on the philosophy of dance. Her interest is generated because of her strong background in the phenomenological tradition and its precursors in the continental tradition (most especially the work of Nietzsche and Heidegger). She also writes and teaches on themes in aesthetics and ethics in the philosophy of technology, with a focus on the ethics and aesthetics of artificial intelligence.
Catherine is currently the co-secretary of the South African Centre for Phenomenology, and a registered ballet teacher of the Royal Academy of Dance. She offers free tuition in classical ballet to UJ students at the UJ Art Academy. Her interest and expertise in teaching in higher education is also significant. She was the winner of the UJ Vice Chancellor鈥檚 Award for Best Young Teacher in 2014, and winner of the UJ Vice Chancellor鈥檚 Distinguished Award for Best Teacher in 2020, a Top 5 finalist in the HERS 鈥� SA awards in 2023, an Erasmus + Teaching Mobility award winner in 2023 and winner of an Advance HE Fellowship in 2024. She was the primary investigator in
Publications:
Botha, C.F. (2025) AI Ethics in or for Africa: Questioning the indigenous principle perspective. Relational Ethics. Edited by Prof. David Gunkel and Dr. Abootaleb Safdari. Springer.
Botha, C. F. (2025). South African Journal of Philosophy, 1鈥�9. https://doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2025.2558289
Botha, C.F. (2025) 鈥淗eidegger鈥檚 Augenblick and the Ephemerality of the Dance鈥� in Martin Leach and Marie Hay (eds.) Heidegger and Performance London: Rowman & Littlefield International.
Botha, C.F. (2023). 鈥楽ite-specific Dance and Speaking/Walk(ing) through Ranci猫re鈥� in Valery Vinogradovs (ed.) Aesthetic Literacy: a book for everyone. Melbourne: Mont Publishing.
Botha, C.F. (2022). 鈥淐reativity and AI: A Response to Boden鈥� Social Robots in Social Institutions听(eds. R Hakli, P M盲kel盲 and J Seibt) Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA) IOS Press: 204-220.
Botha, C.F. (2022). 鈥淢otivation and online learning in the time of Covid-19鈥�.听SARE, 27(1): 111鈥�121.
Botha, C.F. (2021) Filosofia Theoretica Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions 10 (3):119-130.
Botha, C.F. (2021) Foucault Studies 31: 13-23
Botha, C.F. (ed.) (2021). . Brill Studies in Somaesthetics (Volume 3). Amsterdam: Brill
Botha, CF. (2020). 鈥溾�� in Prickett, S. and Thomas, H. (eds.). Routledge Companion to Dance Studies, London: Routledge, 22-32.