Cora Diamond

Who is Cora Diamond?

Cora Diamond is an American philosopher.

She has worked on problems in analytic philosophy, the interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and moral philosophy. A moral vegetarian, she has also examined the rhetorical and philosophical nature of contemporary attitudes towards animal rights. An article of hers, What Nonsense Might Be, criticizes the way that the logical positivists think about nonsense on Fregean grounds. Her writings on both "early" and "late" Wittgenstein have made her the leading influence on the New Wittgenstein taken up by James F. Conant, Thomas Ricketts and others.

Diamond received her BA from Swarthmore College in 1957, and her BPhil from Oxford University in 1961. She is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia.