1980 in philosophy

1980 in philosophy

Events

 * November 16 - Louis Althusser strangles his wife, Hélène Rytman, to death, following a period of mental instability.

Publications

 * David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order
 * Ronna Burger, Plato's Phaedrus: A Defense of a Philosophic Art of Writing
 * Donald Davidson, Essays on Actions and Events
 * Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
 * Peter Geach and Max Black, Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege
 * Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity
 * George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By
 * Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard, Entropy: A New World View (with an afterword by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen)
 * John Searle, "Minds, Brains, and Programs"

Births

 * October 2 - Henry Bugalho

Deaths

 * March 18 - Erich Fromm (born 1900)
 * March 26 - Roland Barthes (born 1915)
 * April 9 - Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, executed (born 1935)
 * April 15 - Jean-Paul Sartre (born 1905)
 * July 1 - C. P. Snow (born 1905)
 * July 4 - Gregory Bateson (born 1904)
 * August 10 - Gareth Evans (born 1946)
 * September 4 - Walter Kaufmann (born 1921)
 * September 16 - Jean Piaget (born 1896)
 * December 31 - Marshall McLuhan (born 1911)