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81Philosophy and Animal LifeColumbia University Press. 2008._Philosophy and Animal Life_ offers a new way of thinking about animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of philosophy itself. Cora Diamond begins with "The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy," in which she accuses analytical philosophy of evading, or deflecting, the responsibility of human beings toward nonhuman animals. Diamond then explores the animal question as it is bound up with the more general problem of philosophical skepticism. Focusing specifically…Read more
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60The Skies of Dante and Our Skies: A Response to Ilham DilmanPhilosophical Investigations 35 (3-4): 187-204. 2012.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
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59Le cas du soldat nuCités 5 (1): 113. 2001.Le chapitre 9 du livre de Michael Walzer, Guerres justes et injustes1, s’ouvre sur un paragraphe intitulé : « Soldats nus ». Dans ce paragraphe Walzer cite cinq histoires, toutes racontées par d’anciens soldats à partir de leur propre expérience ; ces histoires ont toutes pour sujet des situations dans lesquelles ils ont choisi de ne pas tirer sur des soldats ennemis, bien..
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51The Hardness of the Soft: Wittgenstein’s Early Thought About SkepticismIn James Conant & Andrea Kern (eds.), Varieties of Skepticism: Essays After Kant, Wittgenstein, and Cavell, De Gruyter. pp. 145-182. 2014.
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51Throwing Away the LadderPhilosophy 63 (243): 5-27. 1988.Whether one is reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus or his later writings, one must be struck by his insistence that he is not putting forward philosophical doctrines or theses; or by his suggestion that it cannot be done, that it is only through some confusion one is in about what one is doing that one could take oneself to be putting forward philosophical doctrines or theses at all. I think that there is almost nothing in Wittgenstein which is of value and which can be grasped if it is pulled away…Read more
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48Secondary SenseProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 67 (n/a). 1967.Cora Diamond; XIII—Secondary Sense, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 67, Issue 1, 1 June 1967, Pages 189–208, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelia.
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39Sameness and DifferenceSocial Research: An International Quarterly 62 (3): 685-689. 1995.The idea of a fundamental difference between humans and animals may be used to justify subordinating animals to human interests. The presupposition that may need to be examined is that the moral relation to animals must be based on some fundamental property. Much of the discussion concerning animal awareness is framed in Cartesian terms, suggesting that a different perspective might be helpful in improving human-animal relationships and understanding.
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38Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, going on to ethicsHarvard University Press. 2019.Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On To Ethics is a collection of seven essays, divided into three parts. The essays bring out connections between Wittgenstein's thinking and questions of continuing interest in the philosophy of language, logic, and ethics. A dialogue with Anscombe runs through the essays, which take up questions about how we should respond to thinking that has miscarried or gone off the rails. The main issues discussed in this book concern how we are to understand thoug…Read more
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38Wittgenstein, Anscombe, and What Can Only Be TrueIn Danièle Moyal-Sharrock, Volker Munz & Annalisa Coliva (eds.), Mind, Language and Action: Proceedings of the 36th International Wittgenstein Symposium, De Gruyter. pp. 105-118. 2015.
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36Addressing Russell Resolutely?Philosophical Topics 42 (2): 13-43. 2014.This essay is concerned with the question whether there is anything left of the Tractatus criticisms of Frege and Russell, if the principles on which those criticisms are apparently based are “thrown away.” I consider two examples of Tractarian arguments that criticize Russell, both of which may appear to rest on the context principle. I discuss only briefly Wittgenstein’s argument against Russell on the theory of types, but I look in detail at his criticism of Russell on generality. I show how …Read more
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36Commentary on José Zalabardo’s ‘The Tractatus on Unity’Australasian Philosophical Review 2 (3): 272-284. 2018.ABSTRACTJosé Zalabardo’s view of the aims of the Tractatus limits the options available to us for reading and understanding the book. I argue that an alternative kind of reading is possible, if we...
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35General Propositional Form?In José L. Zalabardo (ed.), Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 151. 2012.
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27Intention and Intentionality: Essays in Honour of G. E. M. AnscombePhilosophical Quarterly 31 (123): 170. 1981.
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25Hommage ou Dommage?Philosophy 58 (223): 73-. 1983.Collingwood was hardly in danger. In 1939, when he wrote that, Festschrift volumes for British scholars were rare; for philosophers they were virtually non-existent. Whitehead had been given two, but then he had put himself at risk by going to America. Recently things have changed, and it is no longer safe to stay at home: half a dozen such volumes—at least—were published in honour of British philosophers between 1977 and 1980. But are they really a Bad Thing?
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24Injustice and AnimalsLes Cahiers Philosophiques de Strasbourg 49 23-60. 2021.Wittgenstein suggérait que les raisons en éthique sont comme les raisons en philosophie ou en esthétique. Elles « attirent votre attention sur une chose » ; « elles juxtaposent les choses » ; parfois, elles les dissocient. De telles raisons peuvent changer l’Anschauungsweise de quelqu’un, sa façon de voir les choses. Cet essai a pour objet la façon dont le concept d’injustice affecte le traitement que nous réservons aux animaux. Il a pour objet une manière de dissocier les choses et une manière …Read more
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24Suspect Notions and the Concept PoliceIn Maria Balaska (ed.), Cora Diamond on Ethics, Springer Verlag. pp. 7-30. 2021.The essay is concerned with questions about the legitimacy of the concepts we may want to use. My main focus is Guy Kahane’s criticism of Michael Sandel’s ideas about enhancement. I try to bring out what is at stake in the disagreement between Kahane and Sandel, and I sketch some of the connections with Jane Heal’s criticism of the idea that truth is of value.
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23XIII—Secondary SenseProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 67 (1): 189-208. 1967.Cora Diamond; XIII—Secondary Sense, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 67, Issue 1, 1 June 1967, Pages 189–208, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelia.
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22Intention and Intentionality: Essays in Honor of G. E. M. Anscombe (edited book)Cornell University Press. 1979.
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