Do Trees Have Souls? | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

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🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This lecture was given on February 1st, 2024, at University of Oregon.

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About the Speaker:

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.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
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0:22.0	us at to mystic institute.org. Thank you for coming. I always think it's a little bit magic
0:28.3	when someone says, hey, there's going to be a talk. And I imagine that one of these days I'll show
0:35.9	up and there's nobody there.
0:43.2	But people show up for these things. It's amazing. And what seems especially amazing to me is that people showed up to hear a philosopher talk about trees. I have no idea what you're expecting
0:49.7	or whether I'm going to satisfy your curiosity. But I have a prepared talk, which I will read.
0:55.7	It's being recorded because the Temistic Institute turns these into podcasts.
0:59.7	But I wrote this for you.
1:01.2	This is a new talk.
1:02.5	Sometimes I recycle talks, but this is a new talk.
1:05.7	And if it doesn't satisfy you, then ask me an interesting question afterwards because I'm going
1:11.6	to hang around and we'll have a Q&A afterwards.
1:14.6	Okay? Does that sound like a good plan?
1:16.6	This talk is called Do Trees Have Souls?
1:19.6	And I've subtitled it an introduction to Aristotelian Biology.
1:23.6	In Richard Powers' 2018 novel, The Overstory, one of the characters is a botanist who studies
1:31.8	forestry. Do any of you know this novel? It's a great novel. The seeds of the fictional Dr.
1:37.9	Westerford's career are planted in her childhood by her father, an agriculture extension agent
1:43.9	who takes her on trips to visit
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