Cora Diamond on Ethics

Maria Balaska is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She is the author of Wittgenstein and Lacan at the Limit: Meaning and Astonishment.

“Cora Diamond is an important and illuminating voice in contemporary Philosophy … . Balaska has done well to present us with a collection of essays by a broad range of thinkers who help develop conversations on ethics and its place in our lives. It might be said that these essays are not designed to tell you what to think about ethics, but may act as a guide in your own thinking about ethics.” (Ryan Manhire, Philosophical Investigations, Vol. 45 (2), April, 2022)

• 1. Introduction; Maria Balaska.- 2. Suspect Notions and the Concept Police; Cora Diamond.- Part I: Concepts.- 3. Conceptual Corruption; Roger Teichmann.- 4. Losing Hope: Wittgenstein and Camus After Diamond; David Cerbone.- Part II: Moral Theory.-  5. Defending Diamond against Harcourt: Wittgensteinian Moral Philosophy and the Subject Matter of Ethics; Oskari Kuusela.- 6. Improvisation within the Range of Implication: Cora Diamond, Henry James, and the Adventure of Literature; Garry L. Hagberg.- Part III: Animal.-  7. Seeing Animal Suffering; Alice Crary.- 8. Ethology and Ethical Change; Ian Ground and Mike Bavidge.- Part IV: Human.- 9. Moralism, Moral Individualism and Testimony; Stephen Mulhall.- 10. What Is In the Look?; Anniken Greve.- Part V: Narcissim.- 11. The Narcissism of the Private Linguist; Richard Gipps.- 12. When a Mind Goes Up in Smoke: Thinking of Evil and Thinking; Maria Balaska.