scholarly journals Review of Cora Diamond: Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going on to Ethics

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Hertzberg
Keyword(s):  
Cora Diamond

scholarly journals SOBRE A SINTAXE LÓGICA NO TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS

2015 ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Rogério Saucedo Corrêa
Keyword(s):  
Cora Diamond

Neste artigo, complemento uma intuição de Ian Proops para o qual a sintaxe lógica no Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus é teoria do simbolismo. A teoria do simbolismo é a teoria da figuração. Esta é um conjunto de sete condições que uma proposição elementar deve satisfazer. Desse modo, se a teoria do simbolismo é a teoria da figuração, e se a teoria da figuração é um conjunto de condições, então a sintaxe lógica é um conjunto de condições. Estas condições mais a noção de operação formal fornecem o que é necessário para obter-se proposições complexas a partir de proposições elementares. Com isso, também esclareço alguns aspectos da discussão entre Cora Diamond e Peter Hacker sobre a sintaxe lógica no Tractatus.

Concepts Crisscrossing

2020 ◽  
pp. 275-306
Author(s):  
Veena Das
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Concepts Of God ◽  
Cora Diamond ◽  
Ritual Practices ◽  
Idea Of God

This chapter takes up a reading of certain classic texts of British anthropology to ask how are anthropological concepts generated? Looking closely at the terms around which religious beliefs and practices are organized among the Dinka and the Nuer, as described by Lienhardt and Evans-Pritchard respectively, the chapter shows that the idea of God is transported from the Old Testament notions to decide which terms can qualify to be translated as God depending on what is taken to be real and what an illusion. As a thought experiment, the chapter draws on different notions of god(s) and of ritual practices (such as sacrifice) from Vedic texts in the Sanskritic tradition and asks what if gods were seen as entities produced through grammar, brought into existence only for the duration of a ritual, as some texts on ritual hermeneutics in India argued? Would we have thought of the Dinka and Nuer concepts of god or witches or spirits differently? The chapter also offers a way to think of what Cora Diamond called a “crisscross” philosophy as a tapestry of overlapping threads put together patiently and with many hands.

The Human Face of Naturalism: Putnam and Diamond on Religious Belief and the “Gulfs between Us”

The Monist ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 404-414
Author(s):  
Sofia Miguens
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Belief ◽  
Philosophy Of Religion ◽  
Hilary Putnam ◽  
Human Face ◽  
Ethical Life ◽  
Cora Diamond

Abstract Hilary Putnam and Cora Diamond both wrote on Wittgenstein’s Three Lectures on Religious Belief. They did it quite differently; my ultimate aim in this article is to explore this difference. Putnam’s view of religion is largely a view of ethical life; I look thus into his writings on ethics and his proposals to face the relativist menace therein. Still, in his incursions into philosophy of religion, describing religious experience through authors such as Rosenzweig, Buber, or Levinas, Putnam deals with what Diamond calls, after Wittgenstein, “the gulfs between us.” Such gulfs, and the threat of relativism they bring, need to be accounted for. With that purpose in mind I complement Putnam’s reading of the Three Lectures with Diamond’s own reading.

What Might not be Nonsense

Philosophy ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 68 (266) ◽  
pp. 549-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas G. Winblad
Keyword(s):  
Cora Diamond

For Wittgenstein, as Cora Diamond interprets him in the essays collected in her recent The Realistic Spirit, there are no logical truths, and a host of other linguistic constructions, such as ‘A is an object’ are, contrary to appearances, nonsensical. In what follows, after outlining Diamond's account I argue that the position she ascribes to Wittgenstein is incoherent. I also reject some possible responses to this charge, among them an appeal to the distinction between what can be said and what can only be shown.

Philosophy and Rationality: A Response to Cora Diamond

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 171 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. D. Raphael
Keyword(s):  
Cora Diamond

Cora Diamond and the Ethical Imagination

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Moyal-Sharrock
Keyword(s):  
Cora Diamond

Reading Virginia Woolf Logically

Poetics Today ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-116
Author(s):  
Megan Quigley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Marriage Plot ◽  
Cora Diamond

This article argues for a “resolute reading” of Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out, akin to Cora Diamond and James Conant’s reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The resolute approach to the Tractatus contends that we should embrace Wittgenstein’s assertion that the Tractatus is finally nonsense. Accordingly, the Tractatus acts as a kind of therapy, enabling us to dispense with certain types of philosophical, linguistic, and analytical claims. I argue that Woolf’s The Voyage Out takes a similar approach to the nineteenth-century novel, fully investing in the conventions of the bildungsroman and the marriage plot only to ruthlessly dispense with them. Both works use a particular kind of modernist therapeutic pedagogy reliant on logic and form.

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