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

Conservative Conversations with ISI

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 faith
• the ways that smartphones change human life and social organization, and how the information age is dramatically different from other technological revolutions
• previews the work of Wendell Berry and his views on systemic racism in light of the release of his newest book, The Need to Be Whole

Texts 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 Hochschild
• Phaedrus by Plato
• “I Used to be a Human Being” by Andrew Sullivan
• Leisure, The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
• The Social Dilemma documentary
• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
• The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice by Wendell Berry
• The Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry
• “Race and Anti-Fragility” by Joshua Hochschild
• The City of God: Against the Pagans by Augustine of Hippo
• Standing by Words by Wendell Berry

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