dc.contributor.author | Moyal-Sharrock, Daniele | |
dc.contributor.editor | Kanzian, Christian | |
dc.contributor.editor | Kletzl, Sebastian | |
dc.contributor.editor | Mitterer, Josef | |
dc.contributor.editor | Neges, Katharina | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-02T16:54:21Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-03-02T16:54:21Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-03 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Moyal-Sharrock , D 2017 , Fighting Relativism: Wittgenstein and Kuhn . in C Kanzian , S Kletzl , J Mitterer & K Neges (eds) , Realism, Relativism, Constructivism . Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society , Walter de Gruyter . | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-3-11-052342-3 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 10103574 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: f4dd8fe2-da92-4d8c-b16b-20b3a452eb7c | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17667 | |
dc.description | Forthcoming. Chapter in Kanzian, C., Kletzl, S., Mitterer, J., Neges, K., Eds, Realism, Relativism, Constructivism, Walter de Gruyter, 2017 eISBN 978-3-11-052342-3 | |
dc.description.abstract | As Ilham Dilman puts it: 'language is the source of the system we find in nature'. There is no conception of reality independent of language. There are at least three problems with this – Kuhn's and Wittgenstein's – way of thinking: (1) the problem of incommensurability; (2) the problem of idealism – in the case of Kuhn and Wittgenstein, a linguistic idealism; (3) the problem of conceptual relativism. In this paper, I argue that 'incommensurability' is a non-problem. I then defend Kuhn and Wittgenstein against the charge of linguistic idealism by showing that and how, on their view, our concepts attach to reality. Finally, I deflate the charge of conceptual relativism by arguing that although they reject the existence of an objective basis lying outside all human conceptual frameworks and world-pictures, neither Wittgenstein nor Kuhn endorses an acceptance of all conceptual schemes. In conclusion, however, we shall see that only Wittgenstein finds the stopping-place of relativism – in his naturalism. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Walter de Gruyter | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Realism, Relativism, Constructivism | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Publications of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society | |
dc.subject | Wittgenstein | |
dc.subject | Kuhn | |
dc.subject | relativism | |
dc.subject | certainty | |
dc.title | Fighting Relativism: Wittgenstein and Kuhn | en |
dc.contributor.institution | Philosophy | |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Humanities | |
rioxxterms.version | SMUR | |
rioxxterms.type | Other | |
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