1975 in philosophy

1975 in philosophy

Events

Publications

• Anderson, Alan Ross and Nuel Belnap. Entailment: the logic of relevance and necessity, vol. I. Princeton University Press.
• Capra, Fritjof. The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism.
• Cole, Peter and Jerry L. Morgan (ed.), Syntax and Semantics Vol. 3: Speech Acts. New York: Academic Press.
  • Grice, Paul. "Logic and conversation." pp. 41–58. (Reprinted in Studies in the Way of Words, ed. H. P. Grice, pp. 22–40. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989)
  • Searle, John. "Indirect speech acts." pp. 59–82. (Reprinted in Pragmatics: A Reader, ed. S. Davis, pp. 265–277. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991)
  • 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 (Philosophical Papers Vol. 2), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • "The Meaning of 'Meaning'"
• 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.
• 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 (1975)
• Hans Blumenberg, The Genesis of the Copernican World (1975)

Deaths

• 4 December - Hannah Arendt, 69