Thomistic Institute in DC

The Thomistic Institute in DC presents a lecture by Prof. Joshua Hochschild of Mount St. Mary’s University titled “How Is My iPhone Changing Me? Neuroscience and Thomistic Psychology.”

Tuesday, April 25

7:30 PM

St. Mary’s Lyceum | 313 Duke St Alexandria, VA 22314

Doors open at 7 pm with a reception that will continue after the lecture. This lecture is free and open to the public.

This event was made possible through the support of Grant 63017 from the John Templeton Foundation.  The opinions expressed by the speaker are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.

About the Speaker:

Joshua Hochschild is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Philosophy, Politics and Economics 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.