Cora Diamond

Cora Diamond is University Professor Emerita and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Law at University of Virginia. Diamond has been an author, editor or contributor to 10 books—including works in Italian, French and German—and more than 100 journal articles and essays

Diamond has produced groundbreaking work in three major areas: the philosophical foundations of logic; the interpretation of 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein; and the ethical treatment of animals. She also has produced important work on gender studies, literary theory and care ethics. Her scholarship joined these disparate subjects together in ways that illuminate the contributions that philosophy can make to the broader culture.

Diamond's work has also shaped philosophical scholarship with entire essay collections and conferences devoted to discussions of her work in moral philosophy.

Her books include Philosophy and Animal Life and Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going on to Ethics.

She retired in 2002 after more than three decades at UVA.