Wittgenstein's Copernican Revolution

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.

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.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.