Overview of the events of 1970 in philosophy
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1970 in philosophy
Publications
- 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
Births
- 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
Deaths
- 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)