Background
Diamond, Cora Ann was born on October 30, 1937 in New York City. Daughter of Abraham and Sylvia (Goldhaar) Diamond.
( The realistic spirit, a nonmetaphysical approach to phi...)
The realistic spirit, a nonmetaphysical approach to philosophical thought concerned with the character of philosophy itself, informs all of the discussions in these essays by philosopher Cora Diamond. Diamond explains Wittgenstein's notoriously elusive later writings, explores the background to his thought in the work of Frege, and discusses ethics in a way that reflects his influence. Diamond's new reading of Wittgenstein challenges currently accepted interpretations and shows what it means to look without mythology at the coherence, commitments, and connections that are distinctive of the mind. Representation and Mind series
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Diamond, Cora Ann was born on October 30, 1937 in New York City. Daughter of Abraham and Sylvia (Goldhaar) Diamond.
Bachelor of Arts, Swarthmore College, 1957; B.Phil., University of Oxford, 1961.
She is currently the Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Virginia. One of Diamond"s most famous articles, What Nonsense Might Be, criticizes the way that the logical positivists think about nonsense on Fregean grounds (See category mistake). Another well-known article, Eating Meat and Eating People, examines the rhetorical and philosophical nature of contemporary attitudes towards animal rights.
Diamond"s writings on both "early" (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus era) and "late" (Philosophical Investigations era) Wittgenstein have made her a leading influence in the New Wittgenstinian approach advanced by Alice Crary, James F. Conant, and others
Diamond has published a collection of essays titled The Realistic Spirit: Wittgenstein, Philosophy, and the Mind. She is the editor of Wittgenstein"s Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics: Cambridge 1939, a collection of lectures assembled from the notes of Wittgenstein"s students Norman Malcolm, Rush Rhees, Yorick Smythies, and Radh Govinda Bosanquet.
Wittgenstein and the Moral Life: Essays in Honor of Cora Diamond (edited by Alice Crary) features essays by Crary, John McDowell, Martha Nussbaum, Stanley Cavell, and James F. Conant, among others Diamond received her Bachelor from Swarthmore College in 1957 and her Bachelor of Philosophy from Oxford University in 1961.
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Member American Philosophical Association, Aristotelian Society.