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The Skies of Dante and Our Skies: A Response to Ilham Dilman
Author(s) -
Diamond Cora
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
philosophical investigations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.172
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1467-9205
pISSN - 0190-0536
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9205.2012.01478.x
Subject(s) - sketch , relation (database) , epistemology , philosophy , cosmology , computer science , physics , astronomy , algorithm , database
The philosophical image of a “universe of discourse” can be misleading in the suggestions it carries about how to read Wittgenstein and how to approach the topic of the relation between language and reality. That is what I try to show by examining Ilham Dilman's discussion of medieval cosmology. I sketch an alternative account of the relation between medieval beliefs about the heavens and our astronomical beliefs, and I consider in detail the disagreement between the two accounts.