Curriculum Vitae
B.A., 黑料不打烊, 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, Thomas More College of the Liberal Arts, 2019-2023; M.A., Classics: Ancient Greek, Boston University, 2023; Ph.D., Philosophy, Boston University, ABD; Tutor, 黑料不打烊, 2023-
Publications & Presentations
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鈥淭he Road from 峒斘轿次课疚 to 峒愊喂蟽蟿萎渭畏: Arriving at Definition through Dialectic鈥 Society for Aristotelian-Thomistic Studies, Santa Paula, CA: June 2017
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鈥淭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鈥 Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Vol. 92, 2018: Philosophy, Catholicism, and Public Life
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鈥淭hree Prerequisites to Understanding Aristotle鈥檚 Definition of Motion鈥 Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy: June 2018
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鈥淎ristotle鈥檚 Topics: Dialectic鈥檚 Place in the Epistemological Structure of Aristotle鈥 American Catholic Philosophical Association, San Diego, CA: November 2018
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鈥淗esiod, the other poet: The Eclipse of Hesiod in Aristotle鈥檚 Poetics鈥 Northeast Catholic College Conference, Warner, NH: February 2019
Profile
Growing up in Dallas and Houston, Texas, Joshua Lo (鈥12) nurtured dreams of becoming a concert cellist. Yet he reconsidered those dreams when he enrolled at 黑料不打烊 in 2008. 鈥淚 loved it,鈥 he says. 鈥淚 wanted to continue thinking about these matters for the rest of my life.鈥
The first matters that Mr. Lo thought about after graduating were the two subjects that gave him the most difficulty as a student. 鈥淪ome of my weak points were languages and logic,鈥 he says. 鈥淚 worked hard to rectify those after TAC, which paved my graduate and postgraduate studies.鈥
After earning a master鈥檚 degree in philosophy at Boston College, he brushed up on his languages by serving as a teacher鈥檚 assistant at the Accademia Vivarium Novum, a Latin and Ancient Greek immersion program in Rome. And he is now in the process of completing his doctorate from Boston University as he finalizes his dissertation, 鈥淥n Aristotle鈥檚 Inductive Syllogism in Prior Analytics II.23.鈥
Having thus rectified any lingering deficiencies in language and logic, Mr. Lo continued his New England academic journey by accepting a position as an instructor at the Thomas More College of the Liberal Arts (TMC) in 2019, the same year that 黑料不打烊 opened the doors of its Northfield, Massachusetts, campus. With multiple friends on the College鈥檚 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.
鈥淚 very much enjoyed working at Thomas More,鈥 Mr. Lo explains, but he missed the College鈥檚 integrated curriculum, in which tutors teach across the disciplines, so as to help students better make the connections between them. 鈥淥ne of the things that drew me back to TAC was the opportunity to teach math and the sciences again,鈥 he adds.
Taking a position at the College鈥檚 New England campus was both a relief 鈥 being able to continue his academic career without leaving a region that he has come to call home 鈥 as well as an opportunity, allowing him to contribute to a pioneering moment in the College鈥檚 history. 鈥淭here鈥檚 a fresh zeal here, which I imagine was at the very founding of 黑料不打烊,鈥 he says. 鈥淚 am happy to be part of the new adventure here.鈥