1970 in philosophy

1970 in philosophy

• Hannah Arendt, On Violence
• Phillipa Foot, Morality and Art, Oxford University Press
• Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (translation from French), London: Tavistock Publications
• Alvin Goldman, A Theory of Human Action, Prentice-Hall
• D. Z. Phillips, Faith and Philosophical Inquiry, London: Routledge
• W. V. O. Quine, Philosophy of Logic, Prentice-Hall
• Nicholas Rescher, Scientific Explanation, New York: The Free Press
• John Searle, Speech Acts
• Richard Swinburne, The Concept of Miracle
• Mary Warnock, Existentialism, Oxford University Press
• Nicholas Wolterstorff, On Universals–An Essay in Ontology, University of Chicago Press

• February 21 - Christian Lotz
• March 6 - Vincent F. Hendricks
• March 20 - Robert Arp
• April 22 - Nicole C. Karafyllis
• September 1 - Sam Gillespie (died 2003)
• September 16 - Lars Svendsen
• Cressida Heyes
• William Irwin (philosopher)
• Daniel Ross (philosopher)
• Kyle Stanford
• Yannis Stavrakakis
• Robert B. Talisse

• January 6 - Philip Wheelwright (born 1901)
• January 7 - Fritz Heinemann (born 1889)
• February 2 - Bertrand Russell (born 1872)
• February 3 - Max Hamburger (born 1897)
• April 4 - Khoren Sargsian (born 1891)
• June 14 - Roman Ingarden (born 1893)
• July 23 - K. N. Jayatilleke (born 1920)
• August 17 - Harry Allen Overstreet (born 1875)
• September 2 - Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (born 1918)
• September 14 - Rudolf Carnap (born 1891)
• October 8 - Lucien Goldmann (born 1913)
• October 12 - Andreas Speiser (born 1885)
• October 30 - Heinrich Blücher (born 1899)
• December 16 - Friedrich Pollock (born 1894)
• December 21 - Johannes Jacobus Poortman (born 1896)
• December 23 - Carlos Astrada (born 1894)