Events
Is Free Will an Illusion?
A lecture by Prof. Joshua Hochschild (Mount St. Mary’s University)
When:
September 26, 2024 | 7:30 PM EDT
Location:
School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA) Room 306
Chapter:
George Washington University
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
A native of Venezuela, Carlos Casanova holds a law degree from the Catholic Joshua Hochschild is Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is the author of The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia (2010), translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (2017), and co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction (2017). His writing has appeared in First Things, Commonweal, Modern Age and the Wall Street Journal. For 2020-21 he served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.