
John Robert Bagby PhD.
Presentations:
Conference Presentations
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July 2026. 14th International Whitehead Conference: Zhuhai, China.
The Nature of Life and Living Systems. By The Center for Process Studies.
Absential Virtuality of the Ideality Operative in Life: Eternal Objects from Plotinus to Ruyer
March 2026. Metaphysical Society of America, Yale University.
Sublime and Generous Intelligence: Spinoza and Ruyer on the Infinite Intellect.
July 2025. Revitalizing Biophilosophy, Center for Process Studies & CIIS, online [global].
Ateles Entelecheia: A Brief History of Biophilosophy in Aristotle and Bergson
November 2024. PAMLA Session on Ancient Greek and Roman: Palm Springs, CA.
Footnotes to Hesiod; The Philosophy of Poetry through the Lens of Plato
May 2024. Metron kai Mousike, 9th Interdisciplinary Symposium on The Hellenic Heritage of Sicily and
Southern Italy, Fonta Aretusa Syracusa, Italy.
Keynote Address: Tonos and Harmonia: from Archytas to Aristoxenus
April 2024. Making Sense of Experience: Analyses of Sensation after Mach, Yale University.
The Organization of Sensations: Mach and Bergson
June 2023. North American Society for Early Phenomenology: The University of San Diego.
The Prism and the Kaleidoscope: Metaphor and Analogy in Bergson's Metaphysics
April 2022. History of Women Philosophers series: Boston College.
Émilie du Châtelet On Happiness
April 2022. Ancient Philosophy Society, Pennsylvania State University.
The Nature of Music in Peripatetic Phenomenological Musicology
March 2017. The Territory of “a People”: Questioning Community, Boston College.
The Obligation to Ground Community in Kant and Bergson
March 2017. Symposium on Contemporary Philosophy, Boston College.
Heidegger on Questioning
April 2016. ​Deserts and Oceans: Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Environment, University of Arizona.
Metaphysics of Complexity
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Conference Respondent
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November 2022. Aurbindo Gose International Conference: Ecole Normale Superieure, France.
- Debashish Banerji
The Inward Turn and the Radically Creative Posthuman: Bergson, Deleuze, and Sri Aurobindo:
May 2018. Boston Phenomenology Circle, Boston University:
- Leonard Lawlor ‘Phenomenon closest to the Noumenona’
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Podcasts and Interviews
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September 2025. Envisioning a New Global Culture: The Search for Unity between East and West, online.
Discussion of Nishida and Bergson and Dialogue with Jay McDaniel.
August 2025. The Nearly Lost Ancient Scale of Archytas on Levi McClain.
https://youtu.be/JfduDXnwN_0?si=lvZgnjM0gtsQmIY6
April 2025. PCC Forum with Jack Bagby and Kerri Welch: Sacred Geometry and the Philosophy of Math.
Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Forum.
https://youtu.be/rIPZgFtWtfY?si=8mYnwuDI_aLKo2sR
March 2025. Processing Plotinus: A Bergsonian Reading (Dialogue with Pedro Brea and Jack Bagby).
Footnotes2Plato.
https://www.youtube.com/watchv=iYIRcokwy3o&list=PLFZmGHaC9Z2LHpQslxNUFteD7do0tei4K&pp=gAQB
March 2025. Bergson's Harmonic Theory of Consciousness The DemystifySci Podcast.
https://youtu.be/sNw_FGWKyLY?si=a9BAPpTjisfz8keM
November 2024. Matt Segall and Jack Bagby in Dialogue – The Nature of Consciousness and What To Do
About It, Redux. Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Forum.
https://youtu.be/aWcHl3Ibpc0?si=5Wm_wl0N0He48Nvj
April 2024. Matter and Memory: An Intro to Henri Bergson with Jack Bagby. Acid Horizon.
https://youtu.be/byQjq-9Zbzc?si=EryukOBDJZcBvuFg
September 2023. The Philosophy of Music and the Attunement of the Soul.
The East-West Psychology Podcast.
https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-philosophy-of-music-and-the-attunement-of-the-soul-with-jack-bagby
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Conference Organizing
July 2027. Eros and Music. At the limits of Logo: Syracuse, Italy.
October 2025. PCC Forum: Richard Halpern -- Getting from Point A to Point B with Leibniz, online.
November 2024. PAMLA Henri Bergson Reconsidered: Palm Springs, CA.
March 2017. The Territory of “a People”: Questioning Community, Boston College.
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