1975 in philosophy

Publications

• Anderson, Alan Ross and Nuel Belnap. Entailment: the logic of relevance and necessity, vol. I. Princeton University Press.
• Beck, Lewis White. The Actor and the Spectator
• Capra, Fritjof. The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism.
• Cole, Peter and Jerry L. Morgan, Syntax and Semantics Vol. 3: Speech Acts. New York: Academic Press.
• * Grice, Paul. "Logic and conversation." pp. 41–58.
• * Searle, John. "Indirect speech acts." pp. 59–82.
• * Gordon, D. and Lakoff, George. "Conversational postulates." pp. 83–106.
• * Green, Georgia M. "How to get people to do things with words." pp. 107–141.
• * Davison, A. "Indirect speech acts and what to do with them." pp. 143–184.
• * Cole, Peter. "The synchronic and diachronic status of conversational implicature." pp. 257–288.
• Douglas, Mary. Implicit Meanings: Essays in Anthropology.
• Feyerabend, Paul. Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge.
• Fodor, Jerry. The Language of Thought, Harvard University Press.
• Hacking, Ian. Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?
• Hacking, Ian. The Emergence of Probability: a Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Lewis, David. "Languages and language." In Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Language, ed. K. Gunderson, vol. 7, pp. 3–35. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Reprinted in A. P. Martinich, ed., The Philosophy of Language 3rd edition, pp. 538–557. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Pask, Gordon. Conversation, Cognition and Learning. New York: Elsevier.
• Pask, Gordon. The Cybernetics of Human Learning and Performance. Hutchinson.
• Percy, Walker. The Message in the Bottle.
• Putnam, Hilary. Mind, Language and Reality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• *
• Ricoeur, Paul. The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies in the Creation of Meaning in Language, trans. Robert Czerny with Kathleen McLaughlin and S. J., John Costello, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978.
• Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation.
• Sober, Elliott. Simplicity. Oxford University Press.
• Sperber, Dan. Rethinking Symbolism. Cambridge University Press.
• Unger, Peter. Ignorance: A Case for Skepticism. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Unger, Roberto. Knowledge and Politics. Free Press.
• Michael Polanyi and Harry Prosch, Meaning.
• Hans Blumenberg, The Genesis of the Copernican World.

Births

• 9 November - Raphaël Enthoven

Deaths

• 4 December - Hannah Arendt, 69