Joshua Hochschild

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” (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (Fordham University Press, 2017), and co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction (Sophia Institute Press, 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.