1978 in philosophy explained
1978 in philosophy
Events
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
Deaths
