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? (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values)
 * 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)