Hello, this is Father Gregory Pine, and welcome back to the Timistic Institute podcast for this off-campus conversation, where we follow up with the Timistic Institute speaker, apropos of a lecture or a contribution to an intellectual

retreat or something else besides so as to continue the conversation. So for this installment,

I'm very delighted to be joined by Professor Joshua Hochschild. Thanks for joining.

Thanks for having me. I'm happy to be here.

So as it turns out, you are one of the more popular Temistic Institute speakers. You speak on a

variety of themes on a variety of subjects, which people find interesting. I'm trying to get

people interested in the things that I like talking about. It's like the Philadelphia 76ers

and the plight of the perpetual loser. But very few people seem willing to take me up on that offer.

But for those who may not have heard you on the Domestic Institute podcast or encountered you

in your various publications on things ranging from Cajeton on analogy to everything else under

the sun, would you just say a word of introduction, who you are, where you're from, and what you do?

Sure.

Yeah, I live in Maryland.

I have been teaching at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmetsburg for 19 years.

I'm a convert to Catholicism.

I studied medieval philosophy at the University of Notre Dame as someone who was interested in Catholicism, but at the time I was not Catholic.

I just had a lot of friends who were Catholic and was really interested in the development of medieval philosophy and especially the role of Thomas O'Klinus.

I've continued doing sort of scholarly research in medieval philosophy,

but both as a teacher and more recently, more as a speaker and writer,

I found myself writing on really anything that I can connect to the Catholic intellectual tradition,

which I think is capacious enough to include a lot of things.

So I've written on, you know, issues of Catholic higher ed, of Catholic social teaching,

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