Thomist Realism and the Linguistic Turn: Toward a More Perfect Form of Existence

Introduction: Words, Thoughts, And Things -- Aristotle's Semantic Triangle In St. Thomas -- Three Rival Versions Of Aristotle -- Language And Mental Representationalism: Historical Considerations -- The Language Of Thought: A Revival Of Mental Representationalism -- Hilary Putnam's Criticism Of Aristotelian Accounts Of Language And Mental Representationalism -- The Third Thing Thesis -- The Introspectibility Thesis -- The Internalist Thesis And St. Thomas's Externalism -- Conclusion Toward A More Perfect From Of Existence. John P. O'callaghan. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 337-346) And Index.