- Rev.
- Michael
- Baggot
- Professore Invitato
Academic degrees earned
Ph.D (bioethics), Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum
S.T.L., Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas
Ph.L., Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum
S.T.B., Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum B.A., Christendom College
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Brief biography
Fr. Michael Baggot is a Professor Aggregato of Bioethics at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum and an Adjunct Professor of Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) and the Catholic Institute of Technology. He also serves as a professor for the Joint Diploma in Leadership: Service through Virtues and the Catholic Worldview Fellowship summer program. He was an Adjunct Professor of Theology at the Christendom College Rome program from 2018-2022. In addition, Baggot is a Research Scholar at the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights and a member of the Scholarly Advisory Board for Magisterium AI. His writings have appeared in First Things, Studia Bioethica, The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, and Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. Baggot is the chief editor of and a contributor to the book Enhancement Fit for Humanity: Perspectives on Emerging Technologies (Routledge, 2022).
Areas of Academic Specialization/Interest
Transhumanism and the ethics of emerging technologies
Natural theology in secular societies
The history, art, and theology of Rome
Thomistic virtue-centered approaches to moral and spiritual growth
Associations and Memberships
Research Fellow of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights
Scholarly Advisory Board for Magisterium AI
Editorial Board for the International Journal of Technoethics
Academic honors and awards
2022 Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum Academic Excellence Award for doctoral dissertation
Current research/writing projects
My book manuscript on a Thomistic evaluation of Transhumanism is under review. A chapter on AI in Health Care is in progress for an updated version of the book Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics (Springer). A chapter on proposals for a posthuman destiny in light of Catholic anthropology is in progress for the second volume of a series on Religion and Human Enhancement in Western Traditions (De Gruyter).
Select Publications
Baggot, Michael. “The Daring and Disappointing Dreams of Transhumanism’s Secular Eschatology.” Nova et Vetera. Forthcoming 2024.
Baggot, Michael. “Consciousness and the Acting Person,” in Gómez, Alberto García, and Alberto Carrara, eds. Decoding Consciousness and Bioethics: Perspectives on Consciousness and Its Altered States. Newcastle upon Tyne. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023.
Baggot, Michael. “A Thomistic Proposal to Move Beyond the Posthuman and Toward Human Perfection,” Relectiones. Revista interdisciplinar de filosofía y humanidades. October 2022. https://doi.org/10.32466/eufv-rel.2022.9.747.85-108.
Baggot, Michael. “A Thomistic Assessment of Contemporary Transhumanism as a Postmodern, Secular, Liberal Movement” in Michael Baggot et al., eds. Enhancement Fit for Humanity: Perspectives on Emerging Technologies. New York. Routledge, 2022.
Baggot, Michael, Alberto García Gómez, Alberto Carrara, Joseph Tham, eds. Enhancement Fit for Humanity: Perspectives on Emerging Technologies. New York. Routledge, 2022.
Tham, Joseph, Louis Melahn, and Michael Baggot. “Withdrawing critical care from patients in a triage situation.” Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. January 4, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-020-09999-4.
