Below is the audio recording of Cora Diamond’s John Dewey Lecture, “Reflections of a Dinosaur,” given at the 2019 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR.
The audio of the lecture is available here:
Audio Player“Reflections of a Dinosaur” by Cora Diamond
Cora Diamond is University Professor Emerita and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Law at the University of Virginia. A leading figure in contemporary philosophy, her work focuses on ethics, the philosophy of language, and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophy. Her major publications include The Realistic Spirit: Wittgenstein, Philosophy, and the Mind and Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics. Diamond’s contributions have significantly shaped debates on realism in ethics and the role of imagination in moral philosophy. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024.
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