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 *

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, ''Philosophy of Logic'', Prentice-Hall * Nicholas Rescher, ''Scientific Explanation'', New York: The Free Press * John Searle, ''Speech Acts'' *

Richard Swinburne Richard Granville Swinburne (IPA ) (born December 26, 1934) is an English philosopher. He is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Over the last 50 years Swinburne has been a proponent of philosophical arguments for ...

, ''The Concept of Miracle'' *

Mary Warnock Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, (née Wilson; 14 April 1924 – 20 March 2019) was an English philosopher of morality, education, and mind, and a writer on existentialism. She is best known for chairing an inquiry whose report formed the ...

, ''Existentialism'', Oxford University Press * Nicholas Wolterstorff, ''On Universals–An Essay in Ontology'', University of Chicago Press

Births

* February 21 -

Christian Lotz Christian Lotz (born 21 February 1970 in Wuppertal) is a German-American philosopher currently teaching at Michigan State University. Lotz's work primarily focuses on 19th and 20th Century European philosophy (esp. German philosophy), continental ...

* March 6 -

Vincent F. Hendricks Vincent Fella Rune Møller Hendricks (born 6 March 1970) is a Danish philosopher and logician. He holds a doctoral degree (PhD) and a habilitation (dr.phil) in philosophy and is Professor of Formal Philosophy and Director of the Center for Informa ...

* March 20 -

Robert Arp Robert Arp (born March 20, 1970) is an American philosopher known for his work in ethics, modern philosophy, ontology, philosophy of biology, cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, religious studies, and philosophy and popular culture. H ...

* April 22 - Nicole C. Karafyllis * September 1 - Sam Gillespie (died 2003) * September 16 - Lars Svendsen *

Cressida Heyes Cressida J. Heyes (born 1970) is a British and naturalized Canadian philosopher, currently employed as the Henry Marshall Tory Chair at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, and formerly as the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Gender and Sexu ...

* William Irwin (philosopher) *

Daniel Ross (philosopher) Daniel Ross (born 1970) is an Australian philosopher and filmmaker, best known as the author of ''Violent Democracy'' (2004) and the co-director of the film '' The Ister'' (2004). His work is influenced by Bernard Stiegler, and he is a translato ...

* Kyle Stanford *

Yannis Stavrakakis Yannis Stavrakakis ( el, Γιάννης Σταυρακάκης; born 1970) is a Greek–British political theorist. A member of the Essex School of discourse analysis, he is mainly known for his explorations of the importance of psychoanalytic the ...

Robert B. Talisse Robert B. Talisse (born 1970) is an American philosopher and political theorist. He is currently Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is also a Professor of Polit ...

Deaths

* January 6 -

Philip Wheelwright Philip Ellis Wheelwright (July 6, 1901 – January 6, 1970) was an American philosopher, classical scholar and literary theorist. He was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the son of a stockbroker, and died in Santa Barbara, California. Wheelwri ...

(born 1901) * January 7 - Fritz Heinemann (born 1889) * February 2 -

Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, ...

(born 1872) * February 3 - Max Hamburger (born 1897) * April 4 -

Khoren Sargsian Khoren Sargsian ( hy, Խորեն Սարգսյան; 1891–1970) was an Armenian writer, critic, doctor of philology, and professor. He graduated from Saint Petersburg University and later went on to become the director of the Literature Institute ...

(born 1891) * June 14 -

Roman Ingarden Roman Witold Ingarden (; February 5, 1893 – June 14, 1970) was a Polish philosopher who worked in aesthetics, ontology, and phenomenology. Before World War II, Ingarden published his works mainly in the German language. During the war, he swi ...

(born 1893) * July 23 -

K. N. Jayatilleke Kulatissa Nanda Jayatilleke (1 November 1920 – 23 July 1970) was an internationally recognised authority on Buddhist philosophy whose book ''Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge'' has been described as "an outstanding philosophical interpretatio ...

(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 Lucien Goldmann (; 20 July 1913 – 8 October 1970) was a French philosopher and sociologist of Jewish-Romanian origin. A professor at the EHESS in Paris, he was a Marxist theorist. His wife was sociologist Annie Goldmann. Biography Goldmann w ...

(born 1913) * October 12 -

Andreas Speiser Andreas Speiser (June 10, 1885 – October 12, 1970) was a Swiss mathematician and philosopher of science. Life and work Speiser studied in Göttingen, starting in 1904, notably with David Hilbert, Felix Klein, Hermann Minkowski. In 1917 he becam ...

(born 1885) * October 30 -

Heinrich Blücher Heinrich Friedrich Ernst Blücher (29 January 1899 – 31 October 1970) was a German poet and philosopher. He was the second husband of Hannah Arendt whom he had first met in Paris in 1936. During his life in America, Blücher traveled in po ...

(born 1899) * December 16 -

Friedrich Pollock Friedrich Pollock (; ; 22 May 1894 – 16 December 1970) was a German social scientist and philosopher. He was one of the founders of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, and a member of the Frankfurt School of neo-Marxist th ...

(born 1894) * December 21 -

Johannes Jacobus Poortman Johannes Jacobus Poortman (April 26, 1896 in Rotterdam – December 21, 1970 in The Hague), studied philosophy and psychology at Groningen University under Professor Gerardus Heymans. In 1919 he received his Master of Arts; many years later he woul ...

(born 1896) * December 23 - Carlos Astrada (born 1894)

References

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