1979 in philosophy

1979 in philosophy

Events

Hegel Society of Great Britain was founded in 1979.

Publications

Peter Singer, Practical Ethics (1979)
Amartya Sen, Equality of What?^[1] (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values)
Beck, Lewis White, Mr. Boswell Dines with Professor Kant, (Tragara Press, 1979)
Dreyfus, Hubert, What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence, 2nd ed. (First ed., 1972)
Fodor, Jerry, Representations: Essays on the Foundations of Cognitive Science, Harvard Press (UK) and MIT Press (US)
Hofstadter, Douglas, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Basic Books. (Won Pulitzer Prize in 1980.)
Kripke, Saul, "A Puzzle about Belief", In: Meaning and Use, edited by A. Margalit. Dordrecht and Boston: Reidel.
Lewis, David, "Prisoners' Dilemma is a Newcomb Problem," Philosophy and Public Affairs, 8, pp 235–40.
Lewis, David, "Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow," Nous, 13, pp 455–76.
Lewis, David, "Scorekeeping in a Language Game," Journal of Philosophical Logic, 8, pp 339–59.
Lewis, David, "Attitude De Dicto and De Se," Philosophical Review, 88, pp 513–43.
Lewis, David, "Lucas against Mechanism II," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 9, pp 373–76.
Marquard, Odo, "In Praise of Polytheism", in Hans Poser, ed., Philosophie und Mythos. Ein Kolloquium (de Gruyter, Berlin and New York), pp. 40–58
McDowell, John, "Virtue and Reason," The Monist, lxii, 331–50; reprinted in Stanley G. Clarke and Evan Simpson, eds., Anti-Theory in Ethics and Moral Conservatism (SUNY Press, Albany, 1989), pp. 87–109
Ortony, Andrew (ed.), Metaphor and Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Note: Some authors and contents may not have originated in 1979, but included in the revised edition in 1993.)
- Metaphor, language and thought, Andrew Ortony
- More about metaphor, Max Black
- Part I. Metaphor and Meaning
- Figurative speech and linguistics, Jerrold M. Saddock
- The semantics of metaphor, L. Jonathan Cohen
- Some problems with the notion of literal meanings, David E. Rumelhart
- Metaphor, John R. Searle
- Language, concepts, and worlds: Three domains of metaphor, Samuel R. Levin
- Observations on the pragmatics of metaphor, Jerry L. Morgan
- Part II. Metaphor and Representation
- Generative metaphor: A perspective on problem-setting in social policy, Donald A. Schön
- The conduit metaphor: A case of frame conflict in our language about language, Michael J. Reddy
- The contemporary theory of metaphor, George Lakoff
- Process and products in making sense of tropes, Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
- Metaphor, induction, and social policy: The Convergence of macroscopic and microscopic views, Robert J. Sternberg and Roger Tourangeau
- Part III. Metaphor and Understanding
- Psychological processes in metaphor comprehension and memory, Allan Paivio and Mary Walsh
- The interpretation of novel metaphors, Bruce Fraser
- The role of similarity in similes and metaphors, Andrew Ortony
- Images and models, Similes and Metaphors, George A. Miller
- How Metaphors Work, Sam Glucksberg and Boaz Keysar
- Metaphor and irony: two levels of understanding, Ellen Winner and Howard Gardner
- Part IV. Metaphor and Science
- The shift from metaphor to analogy in western science, Dedre Gentner and Michael Jeziorski
- Metaphor and theory change: What is ‘metaphor’ a metaphor for? Richard Boyd
- Metaphor in science, Thomas S. Kuhn
- Metaphorical imprecision and the ‘top-down’ research strategy, Zenon W. Pylyshyn
- Part V. Metaphor and Education
- The instructive metaphor: metaphoric aids to students’ understanding of science, Richard E. Mayer
- Metaphor and learning, Hugh G. Petrie and Rebecca S. Oshlag
- Learning without metaphor, Thomas F. Green
- Educational uses of metaphor, Thomas G. Sticht
Osgood, Charles E., Focus on Meaning: Explorations in Semantic Space. Mouton Publishers.
Osgood, Charles E., "What is a Language?" In: Aaronson, D. & Rieber, R. (eds.) Psycholinguistic Research: Implications and Applications. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum. pp. 189–228.
Perry, John, "The Problem of the Essential Indexical." Noûs 13, no. 1: 3 – 21.
Popper, Karl, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach, Rev. ed. (First ed., 1972)
Rorty, Richard, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Searle, John, Expression and Meaning
- Introduction
- Origins of the essays
- 1. A taxonomy of illocutionary acts
- 2. Indirect speech acts
- 3. The logical status of fictional discourse
- 4. Metaphor
- 5. Literal meaning
- 6. Referential and attributive
- 7. Speech acts and recent linguistics
Hans Jonas, The Imperative of Responsibility (1979)
James Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979)
Hans Albert, Das Elend der Theologie (in German, not yet translated into English; 1979)
Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition (1979)
Leo Bersani, Baudelaire and Freud (1979)

Births

September 22 - Roberto Saviano

Deaths

January 15 - Charles W. Morris (born 1901)
March 14 - Charles Stevenson (born 1908)
March 16 - Jean Monnet (born 1888)
May 8 - Talcott Parsons (born 1902)
July 29 - Herbert Marcuse (born 1898)
September 7 - I. A. Richards (born 1893)
Paul Schatz (unspecified)

References

^ Sen, Amartya. "Equality of What? - The Tanner Lecture on Human Values" (PDF). Tanner Humanities Center - The University of Utah. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-11-15. Retrieved 18 January 2013.

[1] Sen, Amartya. "Equality of What? - The Tanner Lecture on Human Values" (PDF). Tanner Humanities Center - The University of Utah. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-11-15. Retrieved 18 January 2013.

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