November 16 - Louis Althusser strangles his wife, Hélène Rytman, to death, following a period of mental instability.[1]
Publications
David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order
Ronna Burger, Plato's Phaedrus: A Defense of a Philosophic Art of Writing
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, Entropy: A New World View (with an afterword by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen)
John Searle, "Minds, Brains, and Programs"[2]
Births
October 2 - Henry Bugalho
Deaths
March 18 - Erich Fromm (born 1900)
March 26 - Roland Barthes (born 1915)
April 9 - Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, executed (born 1935)
April 15 - Jean-Paul Sartre (born 1905)
July 1 - C. P. Snow (born 1905)
July 4 - Gregory Bateson (born 1904)
August 10 - Gareth Evans (born 1946)
September 4 - Walter Kaufmann (born 1921)
September 16 - Jean Piaget (born 1896)
December 31 - Marshall McLuhan (born 1911)
References
↑"Louis Althusser". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/althusser/. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
↑Searle, John (1980). "Minds, Brains, and Programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences3 (3): 417–424. doi:10.1017/s0140525x00005756. http://cogprints.org/7150/1/10.1.1.83.5248.pdf.