The second lecture of the Thomisitc Institute at Kean for this semester is Wednesday, November 11th, at 7:30pm in Hynes Hall, Room 102.

We welcome Professor Joshua Hochschild to continue our series on Dante, and lead his lecture titled, “Goodness, Truth, Beauty: The World According to Dante.” This event is open to the public, so feel free to invite anyone outside of the Kean community to join you in attending!

Pro. Joshua Hochschild is 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 served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.