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1980 in philosophy
Events
- 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
References