Prof. Joshua Hochschild

May 23, 2025

How Is My iPhone Changing Me? | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

Prof. Joshua Hochschild analyzes how smartphones and digital technologies reshape our brains, habits, and sense of self by leveraging neuroscience and AI-driven behavioral design, warning that these tools commodify our attention, erode agency, and pose deep spiritual and ethical challenges that dem…
Guest: Prof. Joshua Hochschild
May 12, 2025

What is Love? Plato’s Theology of the Body | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

Prof. Joshua Hochschild compares Plato’s philosophical exploration of love in the Symposium with John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, analyzing how both traditions address the unity of eros and agape, the meaning of embodied love, and the enduring questions of sexual ethics in light of Humanae Vita…
Guest: Prof. Joshua Hochschild
Feb. 21, 2025

Do Trees Have Souls? | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

Professor Hochschild explores the question of whether trees have souls through the lens of Aristotelian biology, emphasizing the importance of empirical observation and questioning modern biology's approach.
Guest: Prof. Joshua Hochschild
Feb. 12, 2025

Marriage as Natural Community | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

Professor Joshua Hochschild connects Theology of the Body with Aristotelian philosophy, arguing that it supports the concept of marriage as a natural community amidst modern challenges from social contract theory and technology.
Guest: Prof. Joshua Hochschild
Feb. 3, 2025

More than Spiritual: Proofs for the Existence of God | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

Professor Joshua Hochschild argues that Aquinas' proofs for God's existence, specifically the first way, are simple, accessible, and not merely spiritual exercises, but rather starting points for a deeper understanding of God and the relationship b...
Guest: Prof. Joshua Hochschild
Jan. 7, 2025

Analogy and the Semantics of Simplicity: Learning form the Limits of Theological Language | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

Professor Joshua Hochschild explores Aquinas's understanding of analogy in relation to divine simplicity, distinguishing between analogy as a likeness between things and analogy as a relation between the significations of terms, and argues that the...
Guest: Prof. Joshua Hochschild
Dec. 30, 2024

Good, Simple, and Eternal: What Philosophy Can Tell Us About God | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

This lecture was given on March 14th, 2024, at Fordham University.
Guest: Prof. Joshua Hochschild
Sept. 30, 2024

Aquinas on Virtue and the Path to Happiness | Prof. Josh Hochschild & Prof. Jane Sloan Peters

This lecture was given on June 29th, 2024, at The Dominican House of Studies as a talk within "VERITAS", a newly launched conference series for Thomistic Institute student leaders. The Conference engaged the following theme: Why Be A Thomist?
Guests: Prof. Joshua Hochschild , Prof. Jane Sloan Peters