University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Thomistic Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presents a lecture by Prof. Joshua Hochschild of Mount St. Mary’s University titled “Does Nature Make Laws? An Introduction to the Natural Law Tradition.”

This lecture will be delivered through Zoom. Register below to receive a Zoom invitation in your email inbox.

Monday, November 2nd

7:00 PM CT

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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.