1978 in philosophy

1978 in philosophy

Events

 * The Philosopher's Annual is established.

Publications

 * Critical Inquiry, Special Issue: On Metaphor (Volume 5, Number 1)
 * Ted Cohen, "Metaphor and the Cuiltivation of Intimacy" (Excerpt)
 * Paul de Man, "The Epistemology of Metaphor" (Excerpt)
 * Donald Davidson, "What Metaphors Mean" Excerpt)
 * Wayne C. Booth, "Metaphor as Rhetoric: The Problem of Evaluation" (Excerpt)
 * Karsten Harries, "Metaphor and Transcendence" (Excerpt)
 * David Tracy, "Metaphor and Religion: The Test Case of Christian Texts" (Excerpt)
 * Richard Shiff, "Art and Life: A Metaphoric Relationship" (Excerpt)
 * Howard Gardner and Ellen Winner, "The Development of Metaphoric Competence: Implications for Humanistic Disciplines" (Excerpt)
 * Paul Ricoeur, "The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination, and Feeling" (Excerpt)
 * Afterthoughts on Metaphor
 * W.V. Quine, "A Postscript on Metaphor" (Excerpt)
 * Don R. Swanson, "Toward a Psychology of Metaphor" (Excerpt)
 * Karsten Harries, "The Many Uses of Metaphor" (Excerpt)
 * Wayne C. Booth, "Ten Literal 'Theses'" (Excerpt)
 * Critical Responses
 * I. Margaret Schaefer, "Psychoanalysis and the Marionette Theater: Interpretation Is Not Depreciation" (Excerpt)
 * Heinz Kohut, "A Reply to Maragaret Schaefer" (Excerpt)
 * In the end
 * Kenneth Burke, "A Critical Load, Beyond That Door..." (Excerpt)
 * John McDowell, "On ‘The Reality of the Past", in Christopher Hookway and Philip Pettit, eds., Action and Interpretation (CUP, Cambridge), pp. 127-44
 * John McDowell, "Are Moral Requirements Hypothetical Imperatives?", Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume lii, 13-29
 * John McDowell, "Physicalism and Primitive Denotation", Erkenntnis, xiii, pp. 131–52
 * Mary Midgley, Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
 * Hilary Putnam, Meaning and the Moral Sciences. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
 * Alan Gewirth, Reason and Morality
 * Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind (published posthumously in 1978)
 * John Perry, A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality

Deaths

 * January 14 - Kurt Gödel (born 1906)
 * May 13 - Anton Charles Pegis (born 1905)