1974 in philosophy was a critical year for the publication of a number of important works, both scholarly and academic studies, and popular literature.
Events
Last and final meeting of the London Positivist Society
Publications Essays Fodor, Jerry, T. Bever and M. Garrett, The Psychology of Language, McGraw Hill. Karttunen, Lauri, "Presupposition and Linguistic Context," Theoretical Linguistics, 1, pp. 181–194. (Presented at the 1973 Winter Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in San Diego) Montague, Richard, Formal Philosophy: Selected Papers of Richard Montague. ed. and introd. by Richmond H. Thomason. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. Thomas Nagel, "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?", The Philosophical Review Nozick, Robert, Anarchy, State, and Utopia Schleiermacher, Friedrich, Hermeneutik. Nach den Handschriften. Ed. Heinz Kimmerle. Heidelberg: Carl Winter. Turner, Victor. Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space (1974)
Philosophical fiction Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)
Births Lisa Bortolotti Rachel Cooper
Deaths Imre Lakatos of the London School of Economics suddenly died of a brain haemorrhage on February 2, aged 51. The Lakatos Award was set up by the school in his memory.
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