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Do Trees have Souls?

University of Oregon

A lecture by Prof. Josh Hochschild (Mount Saint Mary University)

Thursday, February 1st

7:30 PM

Lillis 111

This lecture is free and open to the public. If you can't make it to the lecture, make sure to listen to the recording after it is published on the Thomistic Institute podcast.

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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