Research Interests

Phenomenology, History of Philosophy (esp. Ancient Greek, Early Modern, 19th-20th Century French), Process Philosophy, Philosophy of Ecology and Nature, Philosophy of Music, Evolution of Consciousness, Integral/Transdisciplinary Methodology

Biography

John (Jack) Bagby (he/him/his) received his PhD. in philosophy from Boston College in 2021, and a B.A. in philosophy and ancient Greek language, from the Pennsylvania State University in 2013.

Professor Bagby conducts research on the history of philosophy, focusing on problems related to consciousness, nature, and evolution. He has published in Epoché and Journal for the British Society of Phenomenology, on ancient Greek philosophy and phenomenology (especially Henri Bergson) and has strong research interests in Baruch Spinoza, 19th-20th century European philosophy, process philosophy, philosophy of music, and aesthetics. He is currently working on a translation of Bergson's 1902-3 Lectures at the Collège de France The History of The Idea of Time (Bloomsbury Press), and finishing up the manuscript of his monograph Integrals of Experience: Aristotle and Bergson. When thinking about complex concepts or solving textual problems, Jack loves to construct diagrams and concept maps. Between 2016-2018 he combined his love for creating visualizations with his love of Spinoza to create a website that maps the complex textual citations used in his magnum opus, the Ethics.

Awards & Distinctions

Publications

2022. ‘The Nature of Music in Peripatetic Phenomenological Musicology’ Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy (forthcoming)

2022. ‘Analogy and Metaphor in Aristotle’s “Pros Hen” Understanding of Psychical Activity’ The Timeliness of Analogy (forthcoming)

2021. ‘Aristotle and Aristoxenus on Effort’ Conatus Journal of Philosophy

2020. ‘Reconstructing Bergson’s Critique of Intensive Magnitude’ Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology

2021. ‘Mapping Spinoza’s Ethics’ Italian Journal of Philosophical Investigation and New Practices of Knowledge

Translations

2023. History of The Idea of Time: Lectures at the Collège de France 1902-3, Henri Bergson. Bloomsbury Press. (under contract)

Reviews 

2021. ‘Interpreting Bergson: rubbing up against the grain of our intellectual habits’ Metascience.

Courses

Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Nature

Philosophy of Music and the Attunement of the Soul

The Metaphysics of Integral Ecology

Philosophy of Infinity

History of Western Worldviews