Wittgenstein’s Copernican Revolution: The Question of Linguistic Idealism

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Table of Contents
DetailedTable ofContents vii
Acknowledgements x
Introduction 1
1. Realism and its Rejection:
Wittgenstein's Copernican Revolution 18
2. The Dangers in Rejecting Realism: Linguistic Idealism 38
3. Wittgenstein and Linguistic Idealism S7
4. BernardWilliams: Wittgenstein and Idealism 83
S. BernardWilliams: ASophisticatedRealism 96
6. G. E.M. Anscombe: Was Wittgenstein a Linguistic Idealist? 110
7. Cora Diamond: Wittgenstein and the Realistic Spiritin
Philosophy 131
8. HilaryPutnam: Metaphysical and Internal Realism 146
9. HilaryPutnam: Ethics and Reality 172
10. Conclusion: Realityand Human Life 206
Nores 220
Bibliography 221
Index 224
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Detailed Table of Contents
Introduction 1
1. Realismandits Rejection: Wittgenstein's
Copernican Revolution 18
1. WhatisPhilosophical Realism? 18
2. WhatistheProblemaboutthe Relationbetween
Languageand Reality? 24
3. Wittgenstein's Anti-realism: AreGrammatical Features
of ourLanguage, then, not Responsible to Anything? 28
4. Ifthe Relation between Language and Reality isInternal
does this Mean thatbefore there was Language there
was no Reality? 32
5. Conclusion: Wittgenstein'sAnti-Realismisnot aForm of
Idealism 35
2. TheDangers in RejectingRealism: Linguistic Idealism 38
1. What isLinguistic Idealism? 38
2. Rejection ofRealism: Appreciatingits Implications 40
3. Language and the Human World 47
4. Conclusion: Logical Categories and Concepts in Use 52
3. WittgensteinandLinguistic Idealism 57
1. Was Wittgenstein a Linguistic Idealist? 57
2. Wittgenstein and Hume onthe Problem of Induction 59
3. Wittgenstein and Bambroughon the Problem of
Universals 67
4. Wittgenstein and Kant on the Limits of Empiricism 73
5. TakingStock 77
4. BernardWilliams: WittgensteinandIdealism 83
1. The Tractatus andTranscendental Solipsism 83
2. The Investigations andTranscendental Idealism 85
3. On Certaintyand Relativism 87
4. What does Wittgenstein ReallyThink? 90
5. Conclusion 95
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5. BernardWilliams: A SophisticatedRealism 96
1. Realism: Language, Knowledge and
Reality - ASketch of Williams' View 96
2. Williams' Absolute Conception of Reality 103
3. Criticism of Williams' Absolute Conception 107
6. G. E.M. Anscombe: Was Wittgensteina
Linguistic Idealist? 110
1. The Investigations and the Question of Linguistic Idealism 110
a. 'Essence isexpressedby Grammar' (P.!., §371) 110
b. Wittgenstein's alter-ego: 'But there reallyare four
primarycolours' (Z., §331) 112
c. Does havingdifferent concepts mean not realizing
somethingthatwe realize? (P.!., II,§xii) 115
d. Anscombe'sTest for Linguistic Idealism 116
e. Mathematics isa 'phraseology' and as such
'a suburb of ourlanguage' (Wittgenstein) 118
2. On Certaintyand the Question of Cultural Relativism 120
a. Criticism ofAlien Beliefsand Practices: in the end
ourreasons run out, we resort to
persuasion (D.C.,§612) 120
b. IsWittgenstein a Cultural Relativist? 123
3. Conclusion 128
7. CoraDiamond: Wittgensteinandthe Realistic
Spirit in Philosophy 131
1. 'RealismWithout Empiricism' 131
2. Truth and Falsity in Philosophy 140
3. Conclusion 144
8. HilaryPutnam:MetaphysicalandInternal Realism 146
1. Two Kinds of Realism? 146
2. Putnam Not Committedto Linguistic Idealism 153
3. Kant and Putnam's Realism without Dichotomies 156
4. The laterPutnam: Cleaningup his 'InternalRealism'
in Rorty's Mirror 162
5. Conclusion 169
9. HilaryPutnam: EthicsandReality 172
1. Putnam's Ethical Realism 172
2. Wittgenstein's 'Lecture on Ethics' 176
3. Fact and Value 186
Detailed Table ofContents ix
4. The Reality of Moral Values 188
5. Objectivityand Moral Knowledge 193
6. Moral Learning: Comingto Moral Knowledge 196
7. Putnam's Realism without Dichotomies in Ethics 199
8. Conclusion 203
10. Conclusion: Realityand HumanLife 206
1. LookingBack 206
2. Simone Weil onthe World asSomethingWe Read 210
3. Conclusion 217