Rebecca Roache
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- Title
- Dr.
- Occupation
- Research Fellow
- Discipline(s)
- Philosophy
- University
- University of Oxford
- Department
- Future of Humanity Institute (Faculty of Philosophy and James Martin 21st Century School)
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- United Kingdom
- Town / City
- Oxford
- RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Human Nature, Human Enhancement, Cognitive Bias, Rationality, Risk Perception, Intuition
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Rebecca Roache's research at the FHI centres around ethical issues surrounding human enhancement and new technology. Topics of particular interest include human nature and the relationship between humans and other species; the extent to which human values are products of the sort of beings we are, biologically, and the extent to which our values might change if we became different sorts of beings; rationality (and the lack of it) in popular thought about risk; and the role of intuition in philosophical reasoning.
In addition to her research, Rebecca enjoys participating in public consultations, educational initiatives, popular discussions, and media interviews.
Rebecca studied philosophy at the universities of Leeds and Cambridge, receiving a Ph.D. from the latter in 2002. She then spent three and a half years working in IT, and a short spell teaching philosophy at the University of London, before joining the FHI in 2006.
