1972 in philosophy

Events

Publications

• Davidson, D. and Harman, G. Semantics of Natural Language, Dordrecht; Boston: Reidel
• Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Félix, L'anti-Oedipe,.
• Kripke, Saul, "Naming and Necessity."
• Lakoff, George, "Linguistics and Natural Logic."
• Stalnaker, Robert, "Pragmatics."
• Dreyfus, Hubert, What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence
• Kahneman, Daniel and Tversky, Amos, "Subjective probability", Cognitive Psychology 3:430–454
• Popper, Karl, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach

  Births

• May 13 - Mohammed Chaouki Zine
• October 1 - Mantas Adomėnas
• December 24 - Ingo Zechner
• Austin Dacey
• Edward Jones-Imhotep

  Deaths

• January 5 - Paul Diel
• February 14 - Gerhard Krüger
• February 17 - Ion Petrovici
• February 29 - Pietro Ubaldi
• May 1 - Stephen Pepper
• August 20 - Nichifor Crainic
• October 23 - John Daniel Wild
• November 17 - Eugène Minkowski
• December 23 - Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Gregorio Bermann
• Zhu Qianzhi