1979 in philosophy

Events

• Hegel Society of Great Britain was founded in 1979.

Publications

• Peter Singer, Practical Ethics (1979)
• Amartya Sen, Equality of What?^[1] (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)