Rebecca Roache

About

Dr Rebecca Roache is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. She teaches practical ethics, logic, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of language, and early modern philosophy, and supervises students writing undergraduate or postgraduate dissertations in ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and political philosophy.

Rebecca was previously Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics and Programme Manager of the Oxford Loebel Lectures and Research Programme, both of which are part of the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Philosophy. Before that, she was James Martin Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute, which is part of Oxford’s Faculty of Philosophy and also part of the Oxford Martin School. Her time at Oxford dates back to 2006, but is broken up by a 3½-year career break in which she had two children.

Since 2013, Rebecca has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics and, since 2007, a contributor to Oxford’s Practical Ethics: Ethics in the News blog.

Research interests

Rebecca has broad philosophical interests, spanning ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.

Currently, her main project is a book about swearing, which will eventually be published with Oxford University Press. Other projects include articles on the value of minority languages, the temporal knowledge asymmetry, and the ways in which technological advances might change our punishment and justice practices.