# Joshua Hochschild

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How Is My iPhone Changing Me? | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

Prof. Joshua Hochschild analyzes how smartphones and digital technologies reshape our brains, habits, and sense of self by leveraging neuroscience and AI-driven behavioral design, warning that these tools commodify our attention, erode agency, and pose deep spiritual and ethical challenges that dem…

Joshua Hochschild & the principle of subsidiarity

Jeremy speaks with Joshua Hochschild about the principle of subsidiarity, the idea of the order of charity, and the challenges presented by contemporary technology. Sponsored by AmPhil, helping nonprofits advance their missions and raise more money: https://amphil.com/.#interview #podcast #newepiso…

Becoming Human: Barbie, Storytelling, and Aquinas on Self-Knowledge | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

Prof. Joshua Hochschild explores the philosophical and theological dimensions of the Barbie movie, analyzing its narrative through the lens of storytelling, existentialism, and the thought of Aquinas, while engaging with diverse critical interpretations. This lecture was given on September 20th, 2…

Are Societies Natural? The Metaphysics of Thomistic Social Thought – Prof. Joshua Hochschild

Prof. Joshua Hochschild examines whether societies are natural by tracing the Aristotelian and Thomistic understanding of social forms, arguing that certain social bodies like families and states have intrinsic natures and purposes that fulfill the social aspect of human flourishing. This lecture …

Is Free Will an Illusion? – Prof. Joshua Hochschild

Prof. Joshua Hochschild argues that free will is not an illusion but a real, rational power by which human beings participate in God’s causality, and that the supposed “problem of free will” arises from a reductive modern picture of causation and human nature rather than from the classical Aristote…

Friendship and the Digital Age: A Thomistic Reflection on Human Connection – Prof. Joshua Hochschild

Prof. Joshua Hochschild argues that digital culture reshapes friendship and attention through Curiositas and acedia, offering a path of renewal by cultivating virtue, mindful leisure, and rooted communal belonging. This lecture was given on November 5th, 2025, at John Hopkins University. Thanks t…

John Henry Newman's Critique of Liberalism: Lessons from the Aristotelian Tradition – Prof. Joshua Hochschild

Prof. Joshua Hochschild shows how St. John Henry Newman’s lifelong “struggle against liberalism” is best understood as an Aristotelian critique of false views of knowledge, in which liberalism reduces religion to private sentiment and denies the knowability of first principles, rather than as a mer…

Goodness, Truth, Beauty: The World According to Dante – Prof. Joshua Hochschild

Prof. Joshua Hochschild shows how Dante’s Paradiso offers a philosophically rich, Thomistic, and Neoplatonic vision of the cosmos in which goodness, truth, beauty, and peace name both God’s own life and the ordered, participatory structure of creation that our rational desire seeks to know and love…

Action, Thought, and Decision-Making - Dr. Joshua Hochschild

Dr. Joshua Hochschild asks how action, thought, and decision-making fit together, and he shows that prudent choice is the uniquely human act that unites intellect, desire, and moral formation under the guidance of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. This lecture was given on June 25th, 2026, at Dominica…

A Mind at Peace Audiobook by Joshua Hochschild

Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: A Mind at PeaceCategories: Catholicism, Christian Living, Christianity, Spiritual GrowthAuthor: Joshua HochschildNarrator: Chris LarsenPublisher: Sophia Institute PressRelease date: 05-28-2025Language: EnglishSummary:These past t…