Joshua Hochschild on the Metaphysics of Technology, Thomas Aquinas, and Wendell Berry

 In this episode: Joshua Hochschild, director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program at Mount St. Mary’s University, joins the podcast to talk about how his studies in medieval philosophy and metaphysics influenced his religious journey to the Catholic faiththe ways that smartphones change human life and social organization, and how the information age is dramatically different from other technological revolutionspreviews the work of Wendell Berry and his views on systemic racism in light of the release of his newest book, The Need to Be WholeTexts Mentioned:Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver“How is My iPhone Changing Me?: Neuroscience and Thomistic Psychology” by Joshua Hochschild“Technology and the Soul: The Spiritual Lessons of Digital Distraction” by Joshua HochschildPhaedrus by Plato“I Used to be a Human Being” by Andrew SullivanLeisure, The Basis of Culture by Josef PieperThe Social Dilemma documentaryThe Screwtape Letters by C.S. LewisThe Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice by Wendell BerryThe Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry“Race and Anti-Fragility” by Joshua HochschildThe City of God: Against the Pagans by Augustine of HippoStanding by Words by Wendell BerryBecome a part of ISI:Become a MemberSupport ISIUpcoming ISI Events