Youngstown State University

The Thomistic Institute and the Newman Center at Youngstown State University present a lecture by Prof. Joshua Hochschild of Mount St. Mary’s University titled “Activity and Purpose in Nature: Aristotle's Four Causes and the Possibility of Science.”

Jones Room, Kilkawley Center

Friday, Dec. 3

4:30 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.