Philosophy Department Faculty

Jeffrey Bloechl

Department Chair; Albert J. Fitzgibbons Professor; Co-Convener of the Joint M.A. program in Philosophy and Theology

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Jeffrey Bloechl

Ph.D.

Contact

Stokes Hall North 235

Telephone: 617-552-4023

Email: jeffrey.bloechl@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Catholic University of America
  • M.A., Catholic University of America
  • M.Phil., KU Leuven
  • Ph.D., KU Leuven

Courses

Phenomenology and Religion

The Enigma of Suffering

Philosophy and Mysticism

Levinas and Heidegger

Research Interests

Philosophy of religion

Phenomenology and psychoanalysis

Metaphilosophy

Office Hours

T/TH聽 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. and by appointment

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Department

Philosophy

Profile

Department Chair and Arthur J. Fitzgibbons Professor of Philosophy at 艾可直播 College. Honorary Research Fellow at the Australian Catholic University. Studied philosophy, theology and psychology at the Catholic University of America and the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven. Research and teaching concentrates in questions and problems found in the fields of religion and ethics. Has lectured and taught at many universities in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Active research interest in Jesuit thought, Ignatian pedagogy and formative education.

Other Activities

Founding Series Editor, "Thresholds in Philosophy and Theology," University of Notre Dame Press.

Founding co-director of the Joint MA Program in Philosophy and Theology:/content/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/theology/graduate/ma-phil-theo.html

Founding co-convener of the Advanced Research Seminar in Philosophy and Theology:聽/content/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/philosophy/research/lectures/advanced-research-seminar.html

Founder and convener of 艾可直播 College's annual course on Self-Knowledge and Discernment: The Experience of Pilgrimage:聽www.bc.edu/camino

Recent Publications

(Ed..), Fragility and Excess. Essays on the Thought of Jean-Louis Chretien. Rowman and Littlefield, 2023.

The Primacy of the Ethical in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas.聽Northwestern University Press, 2022.

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