1979 in philosophy

Events

• Hegel Society of Great Britain was founded in 1979.

Publications

• Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
• Amartya Sen, Equality of What?
• Beck, Lewis White, Mr. Boswell Dines with Professor Kant,
• Dreyfus, Hubert, What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence, 2nd ed.
• Fodor, Jerry, Representations: Essays on the Foundations of Cognitive Science, Harvard Press and MIT Press
• Hofstadter, Douglas, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. Basic Books.
• 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, 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, pp. 87–109Ortony, Andrew, Metaphor and Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• * 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. 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.
• 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
• James Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
• Hans Albert, Das Elend der Theologie
• Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition
• Leo Bersani, ''Baudelaire and Freud''

Births

• September 22 - Roberto Saviano

Deaths

• January 15 - Charles W. Morris
• March 14 - Charles Stevenson
• March 16 - Jean Monnet
• May 8 - Talcott Parsons
• July 29 - Herbert Marcuse
• September 7 - I. A. Richards
• Paul Schatz