1974 in philosophy
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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[1]
- Nozick, Robert, Anarchy, State, and Utopia[2]
- 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)
Births
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.
References
- ^ Nagel, Thomas (1974). "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?". The Philosophical Review. 83 (4): 435–450. doi:10.2307/2183914. JSTOR 2183914. Retrieved November 14, 2025.
- ^ "The National Book Awards – 1975". National Book Foundation. 2007. Archived from the original on 9 September 2011. Retrieved November 14, 2025.
- ^ "A Successful Pirsig Rethinks Life of Zen and Science". The New York Times. May 15, 1974. Retrieved November 14, 2025.