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Mental Peace: Is It Possible and How Can Philosophy Help?

Regent University

The Thomistic Institute at Regent University presents a lecture by Prof. Joshua Hochschild of Mount St. Mary’s University titled “Mental Peace: Is It Possible and How Can Philosophy Help?”

Monday, April 10

6:00 PM

Library Auditorium

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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.

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