Bernard P. Knott Chair of Philosophy and Theology

Email: jconley1@loyola.edu
Phone: 410-617-2665
Office: Humanities Center O42M

Education

• B.A. English, University of Pennsylvania (1973)
• M.A. Philosophy, Fordham University (1977)
• Dipôme national, French studies, Université de Bordeaux III (1980)
• Licence en théologie, Centre Sèvres-Paris (1983)
• M. Theology, Weston School of Theology-Cambridge (1985)
• Licence en philosophie, Université catholique de Louvain (1986)
• Docteur en philosophie, Université catholique de Louvain (1988)

Courses Taught

• Philosophical Aesthetics
• Philosophical Foundations of Catholic Social Thought
• Philosophical Ethics
• Philosophical Foundations
• Project of Modernity

Publications

• The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France (Cornell University Press, 2002).
• Jacqueline Pascal, A Rule for Children and Other Writings, ed. and trans. J. Conley (University of Chicago Press, 2003).
• Madame de Maintenon, Dialogues and Addresses, ed. and trans. J. Conley (University of Chicago Press, 2004).
• “Suppressing Women Philosophers: The Case of the Early Modern Canon,” Early Modern Women 2006: 1, 99-114.
• “Eugenic Logic: Eliminating the Disabled,” Life and Learning XVI, ed. J. Koterski (Georgetown, 2006): 481-490.
• “Convent and Doctrine: Jacqueline Pascal,” in Teaching Other Voices: Women and Religion in Early Modern Europe, eds. M. King and A. Rabil (University of Chicago Press, 2007): 185-192.

Areas of Specialization

• Modern French Philosophy
• Ethics
• Aesthetics

Grants

• National Endowment for the Humanities; Mellon Foundation
• Folger Library and Institute; New York Council for the Humanities