1978 in philosophy

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1978 in philosophy

Events

Publications

  • Critical Inquiry, Special Issue: On Metaphor (Volume 5, Number 1)
    • Ted Cohen, "Metaphor and the Cuiltivation of Intimacy" (Excerpt)
    • Paul de Man, "The Epistemology of Metaphor" (Excerpt)
    • Donald Davidson, "What Metaphors Mean" Excerpt)
    • Wayne C. Booth, "Metaphor as Rhetoric: The Problem of Evaluation" (Excerpt)
    • Karsten Harries, "Metaphor and Transcendence" (Excerpt)
    • David Tracy, "Metaphor and Religion: The Test Case of Christian Texts" (Excerpt)
    • Richard Shiff, "Art and Life: A Metaphoric Relationship" (Excerpt)
    • Howard Gardner and Ellen Winner, "The Development of Metaphoric Competence: Implications for Humanistic Disciplines" (Excerpt)
    • Paul Ricoeur, "The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination, and Feeling" (Excerpt)
    • Afterthoughts on Metaphor
    • W.V. Quine, "A Postscript on Metaphor" (Excerpt)
    • Don R. Swanson, "Toward a Psychology of Metaphor" (Excerpt)
    • Karsten Harries, "The Many Uses of Metaphor" (Excerpt)
    • Wayne C. Booth, "Ten Literal 'Theses'" (Excerpt)
    • Critical Responses
    • I. Margaret Schaefer, "Psychoanalysis and the Marionette Theater: Interpretation Is Not Depreciation" (Excerpt)
    • Heinz Kohut, "A Reply to Maragaret Schaefer" (Excerpt)
    • In the end
    • Kenneth Burke, "A Critical Load, Beyond That Door..." (Excerpt)
  • John McDowell, "On ‘The Reality of the Past", in Christopher Hookway and Philip Pettit, eds., Action and Interpretation (CUP, Cambridge), pp. 127-44
  • John McDowell, "Are Moral Requirements Hypothetical Imperatives?", Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume lii, 13-29
  • John McDowell, "Physicalism and Primitive Denotation", Erkenntnis, xiii, pp. 131–52
  • Mary Midgley, Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
  • Hilary Putnam, Meaning and the Moral Sciences. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
  • Alan Gewirth, Reason and Morality
  • Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind (published posthumously in 1978)
  • John Perry, A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality

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