Rutgers University

The Thomistic Institute at Rutgers University presents a lecture by Prof. Joshua Hochschild of Mount St. Mary’s University, on the entitled “Activity and Purpose in Nature: Aristotle’s Four Causes and the Possibility of Science.”

Department of Philosophy | Large Seminar Room | 5th Floor

Thursday, Sept. 9

7:00 PM

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the speaker:

Joshua Hochschild is the Monsignor Robert R. Kline 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’s been elected to serve as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.