Activity and Purpose in Nature: Aristotle's Four Causes

106 Somerset St.,New Brunswick NJ 08901

09 September, 2021

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A lecture by Prof. Joshua Hochschild Rutgers University The Thomistic Institute at Rutgers University presents a lecture by Prof. Joshua Hochschild of Mount St. Mary’s University, on the entitled “Activity and Purpose in Nature: Aristotle’s Four Causes and the Possibility of Science.” Department of Philosophy | Large Lecture Room | 5th Floor Thursday, Sept. 9 7:00 PM This event is co-sponsored by the Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion, and 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. The Thomistic Institute exists to promote Catholic truth in our contemporary world by strengthening the intellectual formation of Christians at universities, in the Church, and in the wider public square. The thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Universal Doctor of the Church, is our touchstone.  The TI is an academic institute of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.   You can find all of the Thomistic Institute lecture recordings on https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute or through the Apple Podcast by searching "Thomsitic Institute."