Jack Bagby

John Robert Bagby is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. His research spans the history of philosophy and contemporary metaphysics, focusing on issues of consciousness, nature, and the philosophy of music. Bagby received training in ancient Greek philosophy and phenomenology at Boston College. Drawing insight from thinkers like Plato, Spinoza, Merleau-Ponty, and Henri Bergson, he engages with contemporary process thought, the interplay between science and philosophy, and how concepts of mind and cosmos have evolved from antiquity to present.