1972 in philosophy

Events Society for Women in Philosophy founded

Publications Davidson, D. and Harman, G. (ed.) Semantics of Natural Language, Dordrecht; Boston: Reidel Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Félix, L'anti-Oedipe, (Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1972). Kripke, Saul, "Naming and Necessity." (Published separately in 1980; setting out the causal theory of reference.) Lakoff, George, "Linguistics and Natural Logic." Stalnaker, Robert, "Pragmatics." Dreyfus, Hubert, What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence (Rev. ed., 1979) Kahneman, Daniel and Tversky, Amos, "Subjective probability", Cognitive Psychology 3:430–454 Popper, Karl, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach (Rev. ed., 1979)

Births January 29 - Forrest Clingerman May 13 - Mohammed Chaouki Zine October 1 - Mantas Adomėnas December 24 - Ingo Zechner Austin Dacey Edward Jones-Imhotep Erik Del Bufalo, Venezuelan philosopher

Deaths January 5 - Paul Diel (born 1893) February 14 - Gerhard Krüger (philosopher) (born 1902) February 17 - Ion Petrovici (born 1882) February 29 - Pietro Ubaldi (born 1886) May 1 - Stephen Pepper (born 1891) August 20 - Nichifor Crainic (born 1889) October 23 - John Daniel Wild (born 1902) November 17 - Eugène Minkowski (born 1885) December 23 - Abraham Joshua Heschel (born 1907) Gregorio Bermann Zhu Qianzhi

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