Citation:
Diamond, Cora . 2003. “The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy”. Partial Answers 1(2): 1-26. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/244527.
Abstract:
I am concerned in this paper with a range of phenomena, which, in the first four sections of the paper, I shall suggest by some examples. In the last three sections, I try to connect the topic thus indicated with the thought of Stanley Cavell.
June 2003: Born in New York, Cora Diamond is author of The Realistic Spirit: Wittgenstein, Philosophy, and the Mind (MIT Press, 1991); editor of Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge, 1939 (Cornell University Press, 1976) and Ethics: Shifting Perspectives (Harvard University Press, forthcoming). Current fields of research: Ethics, Philosophy of Language, Wittgenstein and History of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature.