title: 1979 in philosophy
text: # 1979 in philosophy
  
  1979 in philosophy
  
  ## Events
  
  * Hegel Society of Great Britain was founded in 1979.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Peter Singer, Practical Ethics (1979)
  * Amartya Sen, Equality of What? (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)
  