1974 in philosophy

1974 in philosophy

Events

 * Last and final meeting of the London Positivist Society

Essays

 * Fodor, Jerry, T. Bever and M. Garrett, The Psychology of Language, McGraw Hill.
 * Karttunen, Lauri, "Presupposition and Linguistic Context," Theoretical Linguistics, 1, pp. 181–194. (Presented at the 1973 Winter Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in San Diego)
 * Montague, Richard, Formal Philosophy: Selected Papers of Richard Montague. ed. and introd. by Richmond H. Thomason. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press.
 * Thomas Nagel, "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?", The Philosophical Review
 * Nozick, Robert, Anarchy, State, and Utopia
 * Schleiermacher, Friedrich, Hermeneutik. Nach den Handschriften. Ed. Heinz Kimmerle. Heidelberg: Carl Winter.
 * Turner, Victor. Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society
 * Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space (1974)

Philosophical fiction

 * Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)

Births

 * Lisa Bortolotti
 * Rachel Cooper

Deaths

 * Imre Lakatos of the London School of Economics suddenly died of a brain haemorrhage on February 2, aged 51. The Lakatos Award was set up by the school in his memory.