1971 in philosophy

1971 in philosophy

Events Chomsky–Foucault debate Lewis White Beck presents his paper Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life as President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association during its sixty-eighth meeting in New York City in an effort to engage in rational cosmological speculation.Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association – "Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life",. Beck, Lewis White. Vol 45 (1971–1972) pp. 5–21 on JSTOR

Publications G. E. M. Anscombe, Causality and Determination, Cambridge University Press A. J. Ayer, Russell and Moore: The Analytical Heritage, London: Macmillan Keith Campbell, Body and Mind, New York: Doubleday R. G. Collingwood, Ruskin's Philosophy, Chicester: Quentin Nelson Dorothy Emmet and Alasdair MacIntyre (ed.) Sociological Theory and Philosophical Analysis, New York: Macmillan Antony Flew, An Introduction to Western Philosophy, London: Thames & Hudson John Hick, Arguments for the Existence of God, London: Macmillan Alasdair MacIntyre, Against the Self-Images of the Age: Essays on Ideology and Philosophy. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (first edition), Harvard University Press John Searle (ed.), The Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press P. F. Strawson, Logico-Linguistic Papers, London: Methuen Geoffrey Warnock, The Object of Morality, London: Methuen Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

Deaths May 5: W. D. Ross, Scottish philosopher (born 1877)

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