1978 in philosophy

Events

• The Philosopher's Annual is established.

  Publications

• Critical Inquiry, Special Issue: On Metaphor
• * Ted Cohen, "Metaphor and the Cuiltivation of Intimacy"
• * Paul de Man, "The Epistemology of Metaphor"
• * Donald Davidson, "What Metaphors Mean" )
• * Wayne C. Booth, "Metaphor as Rhetoric: The Problem of Evaluation"
• * Karsten Harries, "Metaphor and Transcendence"
• * David Tracy, "Metaphor and Religion: The Test Case of Christian Texts"
• * Richard Shiff, "Art and Life: A Metaphoric Relationship"
• * Howard Gardner and Ellen Winner, "The Development of Metaphoric Competence: Implications for Humanistic Disciplines"
• * Paul Ricoeur, "The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination, and Feeling"
• * Afterthoughts on Metaphor
• * W.V. Quine, "A Postscript on Metaphor"
• * Don R. Swanson, "Toward a Psychology of Metaphor"
• * Karsten Harries, "The Many Uses of Metaphor"
• * Wayne C. Booth, "Ten Literal 'Theses'"
• * Critical Responses
• * I. Margaret Schaefer, "Psychoanalysis and the Marionette Theater: Interpretation Is Not Depreciation"
• * Heinz Kohut, "A Reply to Maragaret Schaefer"
• * In the end
• * Kenneth Burke, "A Critical Load, Beyond That Door..."
• John McDowell, "On ‘The Reality of the Past", in Christopher Hookway and Philip Pettit, eds., Action and Interpretation, 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
• John Perry, A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality

  Births

Deaths

• January 14 - Kurt Gödel