Loyola University Chicago

Department of Philosophy

Full-Time Faculty

James Flaherty, SJ

Title/s:  Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy;
Director of Jesuit First Studies Program

Office #:  Crown Center 460

Phone: 414.530.9103

Email: jflaherty@jesuits.org

Degrees

BA (History), Marquette University (1978) 

MDiv, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (1991) 

STM, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (1992) 

MA (Philosophy), New School of Social Research (1998) 

PhD (Philosophy), New School of Social Research (2003) 

Selected Publications

“The Role of Religious Belief in James’ Pragmatism.” Auslegung: A Journal of Philosophy (Winter 2003). 

“Sellars and the Synoptic Vision of Persons-in-the-World.” The Modern Schoolman (May 2004). 

Rorty, Religious Belief, and Pragmatism.” International Philosophical Quarterly (June 2005). 

“Pragmatism and Polytheism.” American Journal of Theology and Philosophy (May 2007). 

“Josiah Royce and the Tragic Sense of Life.” The Modern Schoolman (January 2008).