Cora Diamond
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| Born | 1937 (age 86–87) New York City, New York, US |
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| Discipline | New Wittgenstein |
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Cora Diamond (born 1937)
Education and career
Diamond received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore College in 1957 and her Bachelor of Philosophy degree from St Hugh's College, Oxford (where her tutor was Paul Grice[citation needed]), in 1961. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024.[3]
Philosophical work
One of Diamond's most famous articles, "What Nonsense Might Be", criticizes the way that the
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 R. G. Bosanquet.
Wittgenstein and the Moral Life: Essays in Honor of Cora Diamond (edited by Alice Crary[4]) features essays by Crary, John McDowell, Martha Nussbaum, Stanley Cavell, and James F. Conant, among others.
