Associate Professor of Philosophy
Office: HU 050C
410-617-2929
pbagley@loyola.edu
Education and Experience
- B.A. Loyola University, New Orleans
- M.A. School of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America
- Ph.D. The School of Mental and Moral Science, Trinity College, Dublin University
- Researcher and Lecturer, Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, Katholieke
- Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (1996; 1999)
- Earhart Fellow (2007-2008)
Areas of Specialization
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Ancient Philosophy
- Spinoza
- Plato
- Political Philosophy
Recent Courses Taught
- PL 201: Foundations of Philosophy
- PL 202: Philosophical Perspectives: The Project of Modernity
- PL 331: Natural Law and Natural Right
- PL 347: The Morals and Mechanics of Modern Philosophy
- PL 367: Plato’s Republic
- PL 371: Introduction to Descartes
- PL 372: Introduction to Spinoza
Selected Publications
- "On the Practice of Esotericism," Journal of the History of Ideas 53:2 (1992):231-47.
- "On the Moral Philosophy of René Descartes: Or, How Morals are Derived from Method." Tijdschrift voor Filosofie 58:4 (December 1996): 673-96.
- Piety, Peace, and the Freedom to Philosophize (Dordrecht, Boston, London, 1999).
- "On What It Means to Govern All One’s Affairs ‘Certo Consilio’: A Note on Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus," Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 38:3 (Summer 2006): 295-314.
- Philosophy, Theology, and Politics: A Reading of Benedict Spinoza’s Tractatus theologico-politicus (Leiden, Boston, Toky E.J. Brill Publishers, 2008).
- The Morals and Mechanics of Modern Philosophy: Machiavelli, Bacon, and Descartes (Leiden, Boston, Toky E.J. Brill Publishers, forthcoming).