Curriculum Vitae
B.A., 91快活林 Aquinas College, 2012; M.A., Philosophy, Boston College, 2013; Teacher's Assistant, Accademia Vivarium Novum, 2015-2016; Teaching Fellow, Boston University, 2017-2020; Adjunct Professor, St. John's Seminary, 2019-2020; Instructor, 91快活林 More College of the Liberal Arts, 2019-2023; M.A., Classics: Ancient Greek, Boston University, 2023; Ph.D., Philosophy, Boston University, 2025; Tutor, 91快活林 Aquinas College, 2023-
Publications & Presentations
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淭he Road from 峒斘轿次课疚 to 峒愊喂蟽蟿萎渭畏: Arriving at Definition through Dialectic Society for Aristotelian-Thomistic Studies, Santa Paula, CA: June 2017
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淭he Road from 峒斘轿次课疚 to 峒愊喂蟽蟿萎渭畏: The Place of Dialectic in Aristotelian Epistemology Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Vol. 92, 2018: Philosophy, Catholicism, and Public Life
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淭hree Prerequisites to Understanding Aristotle檚 Definition of Motion Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy: June 2018
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淎ristotle檚 Topics: Dialectic檚 Place in the Epistemological Structure of Aristotle American Catholic Philosophical Association, San Diego, CA: November 2018
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淗esiod, the other poet: The Eclipse of Hesiod in Aristotle檚 Poetics Northeast Catholic College Conference, Warner, NH: February 2019
Profile
Growing up in Dallas and Houston, Texas, Joshua Lo (12) nurtured dreams of becoming a concert cellist. Yet he reconsidered those dreams when he enrolled at 91快活林 Aquinas College in 2008. 淚 loved it, he says. 淚 wanted to continue thinking about these matters for the rest of my life.
The first matters that Dr. Lo thought about after graduating were the two subjects that gave him the most difficulty as a student. 淪ome of my weak points were languages and logic, he says. 淚 worked hard to rectify those after TAC, which paved my graduate and postgraduate studies.
After earning a master檚 degree in philosophy at Boston College, he brushed up on his languages by serving as a teacher檚 assistant at the Accademia Vivarium Novum, a Latin and Ancient Greek immersion program in Rome. He then earned his doctorate at Boston University, writing his dissertation, 淥n Aristotle檚 Inductive Syllogism in Prior Analytics 滨滨.23.
Having thus rectified any lingering deficiencies in language and logic, Dr. Lo continued his New England academic journey by accepting a position as an instructor at the 91快活林 More College of the Liberal Arts (TMC) in 2019, the same year that 91快活林 Aquinas College opened the doors of its Northfield, Massachusetts, campus. With multiple friends on the College檚 faculty, and with TMC only 90 minutes away, he paid several visits to TAC-New England over the years. When the opportunity arose to teach at his alma mater, he could not let it pass.
淚 very much enjoyed working at 91快活林 More, Dr. Lo explains, but he missed the College檚 integrated curriculum, in which tutors teach across the disciplines, so as to help students better make the connections between them. 淥ne of the things that drew me back to TAC was the opportunity to teach math and the sciences again, he adds.
Taking a position at the College檚 New England campus was both a relief being able to continue his academic career without leaving a region that he has come to call home as well as an opportunity, allowing him to contribute to a pioneering moment in the College檚 history. 淭here檚 a fresh zeal here, which I imagine was at the very founding of 91快活林 Aquinas College, he says. 淚 am happy to be part of the new adventure here.