Rebecca Bamford
Areas of specialization
Modern European Philosophy (especially 19th century); Ethics.
Areas of competence
Philosophy of Science, Mind, and Technology; Social & Political Philosophy; Comparative Philosophy; Aesthetics; Philosophy of Literature; Ancient Philosophy.
Professional Employment
2016-present: Associate Professor of Philosophy (with tenure), Quinnipiac University.
2009-2012: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Minnesota Rochester.
2007-2009: Substitute Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College, CUNY.
2006-2007: Postdoctoral Fellow, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University.
2004-2006: Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Rhodes University (RSA).
2003-2004: Temporary Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Bradford (UK).
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy, Durham University (UK).
M.A. Philosophy, Durham University (UK).
B.A. (Hons.) Combined Studies in Arts (German, Philosophy, Russian Studies), Durham University (UK).
Publications (selected: 2014-present)
Fellowships, Grants, Awards, and Honors (selected)
Teaching (at Quinnipiac)
Modern European Philosophy (especially 19th century); Ethics.
Areas of competence
Philosophy of Science, Mind, and Technology; Social & Political Philosophy; Comparative Philosophy; Aesthetics; Philosophy of Literature; Ancient Philosophy.
Professional Employment
2016-present: Associate Professor of Philosophy (with tenure), Quinnipiac University.
- Spring 2017: Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College, CUNY.
- 2016-present: Adjunct Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Fort Hare.
2009-2012: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), University of Minnesota Rochester.
2007-2009: Substitute Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College, CUNY.
2006-2007: Postdoctoral Fellow, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University.
2004-2006: Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Rhodes University (RSA).
2003-2004: Temporary Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Bradford (UK).
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy, Durham University (UK).
M.A. Philosophy, Durham University (UK).
B.A. (Hons.) Combined Studies in Arts (German, Philosophy, Russian Studies), Durham University (UK).
Publications (selected: 2014-present)
- Books
- 2015. Nietzsche's Free Spirit Philosophy, edited by Rebecca Bamford, London: Rowman & Littlefield International.
- Journal articles
- 2019 (forthcoming). Symposium on Jeffrey Church, Nietzsche's Unfashionable Observations, Review of Politics.
- 2019. Experimentation, Curiosity, and Forgetting. Journal of Nietzsche Studies 50.1: 11-32.
- 2017. Distributed Survival. American Journal of Bioethics-Neuroscience. 8(3): 183-184.
- 2016. The ethos of inquiry: Nietzsche on experience, naturalism, and experimentalism. Journal of Nietzsche Studies 47(1): 9-29.
- 2015. ‘Moraline-Acid-Free’ Virtue: The Case of Free Death. Journal of Value Inquiry 49(3): 437-451.
- 2015. Unrequited: Neurochemical enhancement of love. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 24(3): 55-60.
- 2014. Getting even more specific about physicians’ obligations: justice, responsibility, and professionalism. American Journal of Bioethics 14(9): 46-47.
- 2014. Mood and aphorism in Nietzsche’s campaign against morality. Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy 25: 55-76.
- 2014. Ethical review of health systems research: vulnerability and the need for philosophy in research ethics. American Journal of Bioethics 14(2): 38-39.
- Book chapters
- 2019 (in press). The relationship between science and philosophy as a key feature of Nietzsche’s metaphilosophy. In Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy, edited by Matthew Meyer and Paul S. Loeb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 2018. Decolonizing bioethics via African philosophy: Moral neocolonialism as a bioethical problem. In Debating African Philosophy: Perspectives on Identity, Decolonial Ethics, and Comparative Philosophy, ed. George Hull. London: Routledge.
- 2018. Dawn. In The Nietzschean Mind, edited by Paul Katsafanas, 37-52. New York: Routledge.
- 2017. Nietzsche on ethical transhumanism. In Nietzsche and Transhumanism, Yunus Tuncel, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
- 2017 (in press). Ecce Homo: Philosophical Autobiography in the Flesh. In Nietzsche’s “Ecce Homo,” edited by Duncan Large and Nicholas Martin. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter.
- 2017. Nietzschean perspectives on multiculturalism. In Philosophies of Multiculturalism, edited by Luís Cordeiro Rodrigues and Marko Simendic. London: Routledge.
- 2015. Health and self-cultivation in Dawn. In Nietzsche's Free Spirit Philosophy, ed. Rebecca Bamford, 85-109. London: Rowman & Littlefield International.
- 2014. The liberatory limits of Nietzsche’s colonial imagination in Dawn §206. In Nietzsche as Political Philosopher, edited by Barry Stocker and Manuel Knoll, 59-76. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter.
- 2019 (in press). The relationship between science and philosophy as a key feature of Nietzsche’s metaphilosophy. In Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy, edited by Matthew Meyer and Paul S. Loeb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Plenary session presentations
- 2017. "Good Europeanism and Colonialism", Political Economies of Slavery, Desire, and Revolt: Nietzsche and Philosophy for the 21st Century Panel, Nietzsche & Critical Social Theory: Affirmation, Animosity, Ambiguity, San Diego State University, January 28-29.
- Invited talks
- 2020. Critic, Author Meets Critics: Mark Alfano, Nietzsche's Moral Psychology, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Main Program, San Francisco, CA, April 8-12.
- 2019. Critic, Author Meets Critics: Jeffrey Church, Nietzsche's Unfashionable Observations, Division 1: Political Thought and Philosophy: Historical Approaches, American Political Science Association, Washington DC.
- 2019. "Bioethics, decolonization, and epistemic injustice." Department of Philosophy Colloquium, University of Fort Hare, East London, Republic of South Africa, July 31.
2019. Participant, Department of Philosophy Research Roundtable: "Research, Epistemic Injustice, and the De-colonized Uni- or Pluri-versity." University of Fort Hare, East London, Republic of South Africa, July 30. - 2017. "Truth, lies, and science: why Nietzsche is not a post-truther." Northeast Nietzsche Workshop, Providence College, April 28-29.
- 2016. "Nietzsche on truth, lies, and science." Bennington College, October 21.
- 2016. "Is there an ethical neocolonialism problem in contemporary bioethics?" Philosophy Department Research Seminar Series, Rhodes University.
- 2016. "Nietzsche and thought experiments." Northeast Nietzsche Workshop, SUNY Binghamton, April.
- 2015. “Plant ‘Human-Being:’ Drives, Subjectivity, and Will to Power,” Northeast Nietzsche Workshop, University of Scranton, April.
- 2014. “Ethos, experience, and experiment,” Nietzsche and the Ethics of Naturalism workshop, Rice University, January 11.
- 2020. Critic, Author Meets Critics: Mark Alfano, Nietzsche's Moral Psychology, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Main Program, San Francisco, CA, April 8-12.
- Conference presentations
- 2019 (upcoming). "Contra Moralism: Nietzsche’s Relevance to Clinical Research Ethics," 25th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, 12-14 September, Tilburg University, Netherlands.
- 2019.
- 2018. Critic, Author Meets Critics session on Paul Katsafanas, The Nietzschean Self, APA Eastern Division Meeting, Savannah GA.
- 2017. “Nietzsche on science and/as faith.” Nietzsche’s God(s): Theism, Pantheism and Atheism, 23rd International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, Bath Spa University, UK, September 1-3.
- 2017. "Nietzsche and socio-political imagination." Creativity and Political Imagination After Trump Panel, Society for the Philosophy of Creativity, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Kansas City, March 1-4.
- 2016. "Nietzsche and Thought Experiments." North American Nietzsche Society, New York, October 14-16.
- 2016. "Good Europeanism and Colonialism." Europäisch – Übereuropäisch. Nietzsches Blick aus der Ferne 27. Internationaler Kongress der Nietzsche-Gesellschaft und der Friedrich Nietzsche Stiftung & 22nd International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society. 22–25 September, NDZ, Naumburg (Saale).
- 2016. “Nietzsche, experimentalism, and agential intra-action.” Joint Annual Conference of the Society for European Philosophy and the Forum for European Philosophy (SEP-FEP), Regent’s University, London, August 25-27.
- 2016. "Decolonizing the bioethical imagination via African Philosophy." Philosophy in Africa, Africa in Philosophy Research Seminar Series, University of Cape Town, May.
- 2016. "On being placed differently in philosophy: Toward greater inclusivity in the profession.” Foreigners in Philosophy Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, March 29 2016.
- 2015. "Decolonizing the bioethical imagination via African Philosophy." The International Society for African Philosophy and Studies 21st Annual Conference, Howard University, Washington DC, 13-14 November.
- 2015. "'Wicked' Philosophy, Life, and Cultivation," 21st International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, "Nietzsche, Life, and the Art of Living," University of Hull, Scarborough Campus, 18-20 September.
- 2014. "Liberation and Colonialism in Nietzsche's Dawn," 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, hosted by Loyola University New Orleans with Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, October 23-25.
- 2014. "Being Selfish," 20th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, "Nietzsche, Love, and War," University of Birmingham, UK, September 11-13.
- 2014. Commentary on Daniel Harris (University of Guelph), “Friendship as Shared Joy in Nietzsche”, Canadian Philosophical Association Annual Congress, Contemporary European Philosophy Section, Brock University, Canada, May 25-28.
Fellowships, Grants, Awards, and Honors (selected)
- Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award, Quinnipiac University, 2015-16.
- College of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Stipend, Quinnipiac University, 2017.
- College of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Stipend, Quinnipiac University, 2016.
- College of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Stipend, Quinnipiac University, 2015.
- College of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Stipend, Quinnipiac University, 2014.
- College of Arts and Sciences Grant-in-Aid, Quinnipiac University, 2013.
- College of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Stipend, Quinnipiac University, 2013.
- College of Arts and Sciences Summer Research Stipend, Quinnipiac University, 2012.
- Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, 2011.
- Imagine Fund Annual Award, University of Minnesota. Supported by the McKnight Foundation, 2010-11.
- Postdoctoral Fellowship (Interdisciplinary Humanities), Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University, 2006-07.
- Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Philosophy), Rhodes University, 2004-06.
- Royal Institute of Philosophy Bursary (1 of 8 awarded nationally), 2000-01.
Teaching (at Quinnipiac)
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Ethics & Human Values
- Bioethics
- Bioethics Online (5 week intensive summer course delivered wholly online)
- Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Technology & Social Transformation
- Philosophy of Art
- Diverse Global Philosophies: African Philosophy
- Modern Philosophy
- Contemporary Philosophy
- Independent Study:
- Ubuntu in Politics and Ethics (Spring 2014)
- Directed Research:
- Nietzsche (Spring 2016)
- Senior Seminar in Philosophy:
- Agency in Modern Philosophy (Spring 2014)
- The Philosophy of Entrepreneurship (Summer 2014)
- Graduate medical selective:
- Fetal echocardiography ethics (Fall 2015)