ABSTRACT
In this essay, I invoke pre-modern ontological and teleological considerations to address recent debates concerning mind, world and truth. I will suggest ways in which Augustine’s and Aquinas’s metaphysical frameworks and cosmic politics anticipate a critique of Hubert Dreyfus’ hazarding of a reductive naturalism, and John McDowell’s hazarding of a continued, and not perfectly naturalistic transcendental dualism, and propose a theory of truth which takes account of embodiment, situatedness and temporality, but without giving way to a hollowed-out emptying of meaning.
