1978 in philosophy

## Contents

* 1 Events
* 2 Publications
* 3 Births
* 4 Deaths

## Events

* The Philosopher's Annual is established.

## Publications

* Critical Inquiry, Special Issue: On Metaphor (Volume 5, Number 1)
* Ted Cohen, "Metaphor and the Cuiltivation of Intimacy" (Excerpt)
* Paul de Man, "The Epistemology of Metaphor" (Excerpt)
* Donald Davidson, "What Metaphors Mean" Excerpt)
* Wayne C. Booth, "Metaphor as Rhetoric: The Problem of Evaluation" (Excerpt)
* Karsten Harries, "Metaphor and Transcendence" (Excerpt)
* David Tracy, "Metaphor and Religion: The Test Case of Christian Texts" (Excerpt)
* Richard Shiff, "Art and Life: A Metaphoric Relationship" (Excerpt)
* Howard Gardner and Ellen Winner, "The Development of Metaphoric Competence: Implications for Humanistic Disciplines" (Excerpt)
* Paul Ricoeur, "The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination, and Feeling" (Excerpt)
* Afterthoughts on Metaphor
* W.V. Quine, "A Postscript on Metaphor" (Excerpt)
* Don R. Swanson, "Toward a Psychology of Metaphor" (Excerpt)
* Karsten Harries, "The Many Uses of Metaphor" (Excerpt)
* Wayne C. Booth, "Ten Literal 'Theses'" (Excerpt)
* Critical Responses
* I. Margaret Schaefer, "Psychoanalysis and the Marionette Theater: Interpretation Is Not Depreciation" (Excerpt)
* Heinz Kohut, "A Reply to Maragaret Schaefer" (Excerpt)
* In the end
* Kenneth Burke, "A Critical Load, Beyond That Door..." (Excerpt)
* John McDowell, "On ‘The Reality of the Past", in Christopher Hookway and Philip Pettit, eds., Action and Interpretation (CUP, Cambridge), pp. 127-44
* John McDowell, "Are Moral Requirements Hypothetical Imperatives?", Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume lii, 13-29
* John McDowell, "Physicalism and Primitive Denotation", Erkenntnis, xiii, pp. 131–52
* Mary Midgley, Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
* Hilary Putnam, Meaning and the Moral Sciences. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
* Alan Gewirth, Reason and Morality
* Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind (published posthumously in 1978)
* John Perry, A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality

## Births

## Deaths

* January 14 - Kurt Gödel (born 1906)

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