Quinnipiac University
Professor of Philosophy
Hamden, CT, USA
2020 - Present
Rebecca Bamford
Professor of Philosophy
Rebecca Bamford
Professor of Philosophy
Rebecca Bamford is Full Professor of Philosophy (with tenure). She joined the Department of Philosophy & Political Science in 2012, when Quinnipiac inaugurated the Philosophy major.
Dr. Bamford is from the UK originally, and earned a BA in Combined Studies in Arts (German, Philosophy, Russian Studies), an MA in Philosophy, and a PhD in Philosophy, from the University of Durham (UK). She was the first woman President of the Middle Common Room of University College, Durham, in 2000.
Dr. Bamford's research focuses on post-Kantian European philosophy and ethics, including bioethics. She received Quinnipiac's Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award in 2016. Her research in Nietzsche studies is internationally recognized, and she has been invited to present on her decolonizing bioethics research at the University of Fort Hare, the University of Cape Town, and the University currently known as Rhodes. She also serves as a mentor in Medical Humanities for the Netter Medical School.
Dr. Bamford teaches early modern epistemology and metaphysics, post-Kantian European philosophy, ethics, African philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of technology, environment, and social transformation, and introduction to philosophy. She also teaches interdisciplinary courses in bioethics, and ethics & public policy. Many of her QU courses, especially "I" courses, incorporate feminist and decolonial theory.
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Dr. Bamford is from the UK originally, and earned a BA in Combined Studies in Arts (German, Philosophy, Russian Studies), an MA in Philosophy, and a PhD in Philosophy, from the University of Durham (UK). She was the first woman President of the Middle Common Room of University College, Durham, in 2000.
Dr. Bamford's research focuses on post-Kantian European philosophy and ethics, including bioethics. She received Quinnipiac's Outstanding Faculty Scholar Award in 2016. Her research in Nietzsche studies is internationally recognized, and she has been invited to present on her decolonizing bioethics research at the University of Fort Hare, the University of Cape Town, and the University currently known as Rhodes. She also serves as a mentor in Medical Humanities for the Netter Medical School.
Dr. Bamford teaches early modern epistemology and metaphysics, post-Kantian European philosophy, ethics, African philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of technology, environment, and social transformation, and introduction to philosophy. She also teaches interdisciplinary courses in bioethics, and ethics & public policy. Many of her QU courses, especially "I" courses, incorporate feminist and decolonial theory.
Education
- BA, Durham University
- MA, Durham University
- PHD, Durham University
Areas of Expertise
- Post-Kantian European Philosophy
- Ethics
- Bioethics
- African Philosophy
- Political Philosophy
Organization
- Philosophy
Office Location
- College of Arts & Sciences 1 328
Mail Drop
- CL-AC1
Experience
Quinnipiac University
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Hamden, CT, USA
2016 - 2020
Quinnipiac University
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Hamden, CT
2012 - 2016
University of Minnesota Rochester
Assistant Professor, Center for Learning Innovation
Rochester MN
2009 - 2012
Hunter College, CUNY
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
New York, NY
2007 - 2009
Emory University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry
Atlanta, GA
2006 - 2007
Rhodes University
Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy
Makhanda, South Africa
2004 - 2006
University of Bradford
Temporary Lecturer in Philosophy
Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK
2003 - 2004
Selected Publications
Free Spirits and Experimentation
Bamford, R.
83(3) Review of Politics (2021)
Nietzsche, the ethical, and disability
Bamford, R.
Continental Philosophy Research Seminar, England, Royal Holloway, University of London (2021)
Nietzsche’s “Ecce Homo”
Bamford, R.
Ecce Homo: Philosophical Autobiography in the Flesh 1st ed. 91-114 Berlin/New York (Walter de Gruyter 2021)
Free Spirits and Experimentation
Bamford, R.
Book Symposium on Jeremy Fortier’s The Challenge of Nietzsche: How to Approach His Thought (Chicago UP), New York, NY, City College of New York, CUNY (2020)
Nietzsche’s Dawn: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge
Ansell-Pearson, K., Bamford, R.
1st ed. vii-270 Oxford (Wiley-Blackwell 2020)
Wagner as Nietzsche’s exemplar: freedom and democracy
Bamford, R.
82(4) Review of Politics 628-631 Fall (2020)
Digital Humanities and the History of Philosophy: The Case of Nietzsche’s Moral Psychology
Bamford, R.
51(2) Journal of Nietzsche Studies 241-249 Fall (2020)
Science and epistemic virtue in Nietzsche
Bamford, R.
Northeast Nietzsche Workshop (NiNE), Hamden, CT, Quinnipiac University (2019)
Bioethics, decolonization, and epistemic injustice
Bamford, R.
Department of Philosophy Colloquium, Republic of South Africa, University of Fort Hare (2019)
Experimentation, Curiosity, and Forgetting
Bamford, R.
50(1) Journal of Nietzsche Studies 11-32 (2019)
Debating African Philosophy: Perspectives on Identity, Decolonial Ethics, and Comparative Philosophy
Bamford, R.
Decolonizing bioethics via African philosophy: Moral neocolonialism as a bioethical problem 1st ed. 43-59 London (Routledge 2019)
Contra Moralism: Nietzsche’s Relevance to Clinical Research Ethics
Bamford, R.
Nietzsche and Humanity: (Anti-) Humanism, Posthumanism, Transhumanism: 25th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, Netherlands, Tilburg University (2019)
Critic, Author Meets Critics: Jeffrey Church’s Nietzsche’s Unfashionable Observations
Bamford, R.
American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, N/A (2019)
Nietzsche’s Metaphilosophy: The Nature, Method, and Aims of Philosophy
Bamford, R.
The relationship between science and philosophy as a key feature of Nietzsche’s metaphilosophy 1st ed. 65-82 Cambridge (Cambridge University Press 2019)
Routledge Philosophy Minds: Nietzsche
Bamford, R.
Dawn 1st ed. 25-40 London (Routledge 2018)
Nietzsche and socio-political imagination
Bamford, R.
American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Kansas City, MO, N/A (2017)
Truth, lies, and science: Nietzsche’s scientism-free approach to science
Bamford, R.
Northeast Nietzsche Workshop, Providence, RI, Providence College (2017)
Distributed Survival
Bamford, R.
8(3) American Journal of Bioethics-Neuroscience 183-184 (2017)
Nietzsche on truth, lies, and science
Bamford, R.
Philosophy Research Seminar, Bennington, VT, Bennington College (2016)
Nietzsche and thought experiments
Bamford, R.
North American Nietzsche Society Inaugural Conference, New York, NY, Hunter College, CUNY (2016)
Good Europeanism and Colonialism
Bamford, R.
European – Supra-European. Nietzsche’s View from Afar. 22nd International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society and 27th International Conference of the Nietzsche-Gesellschaft & Friedrich Nietzsche Stiftung: Joint Bilingual Conference, Naumburg (Saale), Germany, N/A (2016)
Nietzsche, experimentalism, and agential-intra-action
Bamford, R.
Society for European Philosophy-Forum for European Philosophy (SEP-FEP) Conference, England, Regent’s University, London (2016)
Philosophies of Multiculturalism
Bamford, R.
Nietzschean perspectives on multiculturalism 1st ed. 43-60 London (Routledge 2016)