Cora Diamond

Cora Diamond
Cora Diamond
Born	1937 (age 86–87); New York City, New York, US
Academic background
Alma mater	Swarthmore College; St Hugh's College, Oxford;
Influences	Stanley Cavell; Iris Murdoch; Elizabeth Anscombe; Ludwig Wittgenstein;
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy
Sub-discipline	Moral philosophy; animal ethics; philosophy of language; political philosophy;
School or tradition	Analytic philosophy; Postanalytic philosophy; The New Wittgenstein;
Institutions	University of Virginia
Main interests	Animal rights; Gottlob Frege; philosophy and literature; Ludwig Wittgenstein;
Notable ideas	New Wittgenstein
Influenced	James F. Conant; Alice Crary; Juliet Floyd; Aldo Gargani; Ashton Nichols; Rupert Read;

Cora Diamond (born 1937) is an American philosopher who works in the areas of moral philosophy, animal ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy and literature, and the thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gottlob Frege, and Elizabeth Anscombe. Diamond is the Kenan Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Virginia.

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