1970 in philosophy

1970 in philosophy

Publications

 * Hannah Arendt, On Violence
 * Phillipa Foot, Morality and Art, Oxford University Press
 * Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (translation from French), London: Tavistock Publications
 * Alvin Goldman, A Theory of Human Action, Prentice-Hall
 * D. Z. Phillips, Faith and Philosophical Inquiry, London: Routledge
 * W. V. O. Quine, Philosophy of Logic, Prentice-Hall
 * Nicholas Rescher, Scientific Explanation, New York: The Free Press
 * John Searle, Speech Acts
 * Richard Swinburne, The Concept of Miracle
 * Mary Warnock, Existentialism, Oxford University Press
 * Nicholas Wolterstorff, On Universals–An Essay in Ontology, University of Chicago Press

Births

 * February 21 - Christian Lotz
 * March 6 - Vincent F. Hendricks
 * March 20 - Robert Arp
 * April 22 - Nicole C. Karafyllis
 * September 1 - Sam Gillespie (died 2003)
 * September 16 - Lars Svendsen
 * Cressida Heyes
 * William Irwin (philosopher)
 * Daniel Ross (philosopher)
 * Kyle Stanford
 * Yannis Stavrakakis
 * Robert B. Talisse

Deaths

 * January 6 - Philip Wheelwright (born 1901)
 * January 7 - Fritz Heinemann (born 1889)
 * February 2 - Bertrand Russell (born 1872)
 * February 3 - Max Hamburger (born 1897)
 * April 4 - Khoren Sargsian (born 1891)
 * June 14 - Roman Ingarden (born 1893)
 * July 23 - K. N. Jayatilleke (born 1920)
 * August 17 - Harry Allen Overstreet (born 1875)
 * September 2 - Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (born 1918)
 * September 14 - Rudolf Carnap (born 1891)
 * October 8 - Lucien Goldmann (born 1913)
 * October 12 - Andreas Speiser (born 1885)
 * October 30 - Heinrich Blücher (born 1899)
 * December 16 - Friedrich Pollock (born 1894)
 * December 21 - Johannes Jacobus Poortman (born 1896)
 * December 23 - Carlos Astrada (born 1894)