Cora Diamond on Ethics

ISBN-13: 9783030592189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 267 str.

Maria Balaska

Recenzje

"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)

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.

Blurb

"On rare occasion a philosopher enters our midst who challenges us to see and think and act differently; who thereby delights us, and inspires wonder and admiration and love.  Cora Diamond is that philosopher.  She is a master of diagnosis -- and her work is living proof that a beautifully crafted diagnosis will not leave us unchanged. On our lives with animals, our lives with each other, on being human, on thinking as itself ethical, on facing or avoiding reality, and living with the threat of being undone by it, Cora Diamond's thinking gets inside us, and gets us going.  Cora Diamond on Ethics is an excellent collection of essays on the meaning and scope of her ethical work". 

— Jonathan Lear, John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy, The University of Chicago, USA

This collection offers an in-depth look at Cora Diamond’s distinctive approach to ethics and its philosophical significance. It comprises a new essay by Cora Diamond on the policing of concepts, followed by ten original chapters by world-class scholars covering conceptual loss, moral theory, the category of the human, the moral consideration of animals, and the meaning of narcissism.

Including comparisons to the work of other contemporary moral philosophers such as Martha Nussbaum, Jeff McMahan, Rai Gaita, Eva Kittay, Christine Korsgaard, and Edward Harcourt, the volume also creates interdisciplinary links between Diamond’s work and other fields of study, including psychoanalysis and contemporary ethology. Showcasing the vital importance of Diamond’s contribution to philosophy, this volume is essential reading for scholars working in ethics, philosophy of language and literature. 

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.