1972 in philosophy

1972 in philosophy

Publications

 * Davidson, D. and Harman, G. (ed.) Semantics of Natural Language, Dordrecht; Boston: Reidel
 * Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Félix, L'anti-Oedipe, (Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1972).
 * Kripke, Saul, "Naming and Necessity."  (Published separately in 1980; setting out the causal theory of reference.)
 * Lakoff, George, "Linguistics and Natural Logic."
 * Stalnaker, Robert, "Pragmatics."
 * Dreyfus, Hubert, What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence (Rev. ed., 1979)
 * Kahneman, Daniel and Tversky, Amos, "Subjective probability", Cognitive Psychology 3:430–454
 * Popper, Karl, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach (Rev. ed., 1979)

Births

 * May 13 - Mohammed Chaouki Zine
 * October 1 - Mantas Adomėnas
 * December 24 - Ingo Zechner
 * Austin Dacey
 * Edward Jones-Imhotep
 * Erik Del Bufalo, Venezuelan philosopher

Deaths

 * January 5 - Paul Diel (born 1893)
 * February 14 - Gerhard Krüger (philosopher) (born 1902)
 * February 17 - Ion Petrovici (born 1882)
 * February 29 - Pietro Ubaldi (born 1886)
 * May 1 - Stephen Pepper (born 1891)
 * August 20 - Nichifor Crainic (born 1889)
 * October 23 - John Daniel Wild (born 1902)
 * November 17 - Eugène Minkowski (born 1885)
 * December 23 - Abraham Joshua Heschel (born 1907)
 * Gregorio Bermann
 * Zhu Qianzhi