The Semantics of Analogy is the first book-length interpretive study in English of Thomas de Vio Cajetan's (1469?-1534) classic treatise on analogy. Written in 1498, De Nominum Analogia (On the Analogy of Names) has long been treated as Cajetan's attempt to systematize Aquinas’s theory of analogy. A traditional interpretation regarded it as the official Thomistic treatise on analogy, but current scholarly consensus holds that Cajetan misinterpreted Aquinas and misunderstood the phenomenon of analogy. Both approaches, argues Joshua P. Hochschild, ignore the philosophical and historical...

Joshua P. Hochschild studied at Yale (B.A. 1994) and the University of Notre Dame (Ph.D. 2001), and his primary research is in medieval logic, semantics, and metaphysics.  He has published articles and reviews inInternational Philosophical Quarterly,Journal of the History of Philosophy,Medieval Philosophy and Theology, andThe Thomistamong other journals.  He is the author ofThe Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’sDe Nominum Analogia (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), and translator of Claude Panaccio’sMental Language: From Plato to Ockham(Fordham University Press, 2017).  He...