Wittgenstein's Copernican Revolution

Wittgenstein's Copernican Revolution is concerned with how one is to conceive of the relation between language and reality without embracing Linguistic Realism and without courting any form of Linguistic Idealism either. It argues that this is precisely what Wittgenstein does and also examines some well known contemporary philosophers who have been concerned with this same question.

Auteur

ILHAM DILMAN is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is the author of eighteen philosophical books including, Existential Critiques of Cartesianism, Love: Its Forms, Dimensions and Paradoxes, Language and Reality: Modern Perspectives on Wittgenstein, Free Will, and Raskolnikov's Rebirth: Psychology and the Understanding of Good and Evil.

Contenu

Acknowledgements Introduction Realism and its Rejection: Wittgenstein's Copernican Revolution The Dangers of Rejecting Realism: Linguistic Idealism Wittgenstein and Linguistic Idealism Bernard Williams: Wittgenstein and Idealism Bernard Williams: a Sophisticated Realism G.E.M.Anscome: Was Wittgenstein a Linguistic Idealist? Cora Diamond: Wittgenstein and the Realistic Spirit Hilary Putnam: Metaphysical and Internal Realism Hilary Putnam: Ethics and Reality Conclusion: Reality and Human Life Notes Index Bibliography