Patrick Lyall Bourgeois

William and Audrey Hutchinson Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
Contact: Bobet Hall, Rm 418, (504) 865-3054
E-mail: bourgeoi@loyno.edu

Education

Ph. D. in Philosophy, Duquesne University 1970 [with distinction];
M. A. in Liturgical Theology, Notre Dame University;
M. A. in Religion, Notre Dame Seminary [Summa cum Laude];
B. A. in philosophy, Notre Dame Seminary [Cum Laude];
A. A. St. Joseph Seminary College [Magna cum Laude].

Bio and Publications

Dr. Bourgeois has been on the philosophy faculty at Loyola University since 1968. His first teaching position was in theology at Duquesne University. He specializes in 20th century continental philosophy [Ricoeur, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty], Kierkegaard, pragmatism and phenomenology, and philosophical theology. He has written nearly 100 articles in addition to many book reviews in these areas, and has authored - co-authored eight books, among which are: Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason, Volume I Ethics and Postmodernity [first of three volumes, SUNY Press, 2001], The Extension of Ricoeur's Hermeneutics (Martinus Nijhoff, 1975); The Religious Within Experience and Existence: A Phenomenological Investigation (Duquesne University Press, 1990); Mead and Merleau-Ponty: A Common Vision, with Rosenthal, (SUNY Press, 1991); Thematic Studies in Phenomenology and Pragmatism, with Rosenthal (Grüner, 1983). He has read scores of papers and delivered numerous lectures. He has edited, and is presently editing, a number of volumes in contemporary philosophy as well as being a regular reviewer for a number of journals. In numerous professional societies, he has served as an officer and has been active on many committees. He served over six years as president of the Gabriel Marcel Society, and is the President of the Société Américaine de Philosophie de Langue Françoise. He is also President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (2001-2002). He has been and is presently on numerous university, college, and departmental committees, in addition to serving on the Board of Trustees of St. Joseph Seminary College. He received Loyola's Dux Academicus Award in 1993. He recently served as Chair of the Department of Philosophy (1998-2001)