Philosophy Department Faculty

Jeffrey Bloechl

Albert J. Fitzgibbons Professor of Philosophy; Chair of the Department

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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
  • Ph.L., Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven
  • Ph.D., Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven

Courses

Hermeneutics of Christian Life

Levinas and Heidegger

The Problem of Suffering

Ethics of Accompaniment of Refugees

Research Interests

Philosophy of Religion

Philosophy and Christianity

Phenomenology

Office Hours

By appointment

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Department

Philosophy

Profile

Department Chair and Arthur J. Fitzgibbons Professor of Philosophy at Boston 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 co-director of Joint MA in Philosophy and Theology

Founding instructor of annual courses that include immersion experience of pilgrimage and of the work of Jesuit Refugee Services.

Recent Publications

Ordinary and Extraordinary and Other Essays on Phenomenology and Christianity (2025)

Editor, Fragility and Transcendence. Essays on the Thought of Jean-Louis Chretien (2023)

Levinas on the Primacy of the Ethical (2022)

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