Research Interests

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

Biography

Professor Bagby conducts research on the history of philosophy from a phenomenological perspective, focusing on problems related to consciousness, nature, and aesthetics. He has published on ancient Greek philosophy, Henri Bergson, and Baruch Spinoza, and has strong research interests in 19th-20th century European philosophy (esp. process philosophy, Transcendental philosophy, and French Spiritualism) and philosophy of music. He was coeditor and contributor to the recent book Meter and Music in Ancient Greece. Bagby is currently working on two major book projects—on French Spiritualism and phenomenology of music—and developing research on Nishida Kitarō’s philosophy of life. 

Education

M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy, Boston College, 2021

B.A. in Philosophy and Ancient Greek Language, Pennsylvania State University, 2013

Publications

2025. Spinoza on the Nature of God: Participating in Collective Empowerment Religions 

2025. Attunement: How the Musicology and Metaphysics of Taras shaped Athenian Philosophy in Meter and Music in Ancient Greece 

2024. Ancient Greek ideas of attunement can breathe new life into music Psyche 

2024. Invention in Bergson's Integral Empiricism Process Studies 

2024. Aristotle on Intensity: physis, energeia, psyche Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 

2024. Bergson and the Metaphysical Implications of Calculus Process Studies

Courses

Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Nature

Baruch Spinoza

Henri Bergson

Philosophy of Music and the Attunement of the Soul

The Metaphysics of Integral Ecology

Philosophy of Infinity

Aesthetics and the Study of Consciousness  

Intuition in Bergson, Deleuze, and Sri Aurobindo

History of Western Worldview I & II

Intro to Phenomenology