Author

Patrick Madigan received his BA in philosophy from Boston College, USA. He received his MA and PhD in philosophy from Tulane University, USA. After teaching at the Catholic University of America and LeMoyne College, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1975. He followed the usual course of study, teaching at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, and Loyola University in New Orleans. He spent four years studying at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, California, and was ordained in 1983. He was founding librarian and taught the history of philosophy at the Jesuit School of Philosophy in Harare, Zimbabwe, from 1993 to 2005. He was editor of the Heythrop Journal in London from 2006 until 2021.