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Wittgenstein's Copernican Revolution

The Question of Linguistic Idealism

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  • © 2002

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  1. İlham Dilman
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Part of the book series: Swansea Studies in Philosophy (SWSP)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • İlham Dilman
    Pages 1-17

  3. Realism and its Rejection: Wittgenstein’s Copernican Revolution

    • İlham Dilman
    Pages 18-37

  4. The Dangers in Rejecting Realism: Linguistic Idealism

    • İlham Dilman
    Pages 38-56

  5. Wittgenstein and Linguistic Idealism

    • İlham Dilman
    Pages 57-82

  6. Bernard Williams: Wittgenstein and Idealism

    • İlham Dilman
    Pages 83-95

  7. Bernard Williams: A Sophisticated Realism

    • İlham Dilman
    Pages 96-109

  8. G. E. M. Anscombe: Was Wittgenstein a Linguistic Idealist?

    • İlham Dilman
    Pages 110-130

  9. Cora Diamond: Wittgenstein and the Realistic Spirit in Philosophy

    • İlham Dilman
    Pages 131-145

  10. Hilary Putnam: Metaphysical and Internal Realism

    • İlham Dilman
    Pages 146-171

  11. Hilary Putnam: Ethics and Reality

    • İlham Dilman
    Pages 172-205

  12. Conclusion: Reality and Human Life

    • İlham Dilman
    Pages 206-219

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 220-226
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About this book

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.

About the author

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.

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