1980 in philosophy

Events

• November 16 - Louis Althusser strangles his wife, Hélène Rytman, to death, following a period of mental instability.

  Publications

• David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order
• Ronna Burger, '
• Donald Davidson, Essays on Actions and Events
• Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
• Peter Geach and Max Black, Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege
• Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity
• George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By
• Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard, '
• John Searle, "Minds, Brains, and Programs"

  Births

• October 2 - Henry Bugalho

  Deaths

• March 18 - Erich Fromm
• March 26 - Roland Barthes
• April 9 - Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, executed
• April 15 - Jean-Paul Sartre
• July 1 - C. P. Snow
• July 4 - Gregory Bateson
• August 10 - Gareth Evans
• September 4 - Walter Kaufmann
• September 16 - Jean Piaget
• December 31 - Marshall McLuhan