1978 in philosophy
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" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070205211139/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v5/v5n1.cohen.html Excerpt])
- Paul de Man, "The Epistemology of Metaphor" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070205211149/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v5/v5n1.deman.html Excerpt])
- Donald Davidson, "What Metaphors Mean" [https://web.archive.org/web/20061230194338/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v5/v5n1.davidson.html Excerpt])
- Wayne C. Booth, "Metaphor as Rhetoric: The Problem of Evaluation" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070205211119/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v5/v5n1.booth.html Excerpt])
- Karsten Harries, "Metaphor and Transcendence" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070812124741/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v5/v5n1.harries.html Excerpt])
- David Tracy, "Metaphor and Religion: The Test Case of Christian Texts" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070205211229/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v5/v5n1.tracy.html Excerpt])
- Richard Shiff, "Art and Life: A Metaphoric Relationship" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070205211223/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v5/v5n1.shiff.html Excerpt])
- Howard Gardner and Ellen Winner, "The Development of Metaphoric Competence: Implications for Humanistic Disciplines" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070205211458/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v5/v5n1.gardnerwinner.html Excerpt])
- Paul Ricoeur, "The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination, and Feeling" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070115034101/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v5/v5n1.ricoeur.html Excerpt])
- Afterthoughts on Metaphor
- W.V. Quine, "A Postscript on Metaphor" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070205211209/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v5/v5n1.quine.html Excerpt])
- Don R. Swanson, "Toward a Psychology of Metaphor" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070205211320/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v5/v5n1.swanson.html Excerpt])
- Karsten Harries, "The Many Uses of Metaphor" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070812124741/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v5/v5n1.harries.html Excerpt])
- Wayne C. Booth, "Ten Literal 'Theses'" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070205211119/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v5/v5n1.booth.html Excerpt])
- Critical Responses
- I. Margaret Schaefer, "Psychoanalysis and the Marionette Theater: Interpretation Is Not Depreciation" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070205211343/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v5/v5n1.schaefer.html Excerpt])
- Heinz Kohut, "A Reply to Margret Schaefer" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070205211157/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v5/v5n1.kohut.html Excerpt])
- In the end
- Kenneth Burke, "A Critical Load, Beyond That Door..." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070205211124/http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/v5/v5n1.burke.html Excerpt])
- Lewis White Beck, Essays on Kant and Hume
- 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
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Deaths
- January 14 - Kurt Gödel (born 1906)
- May 13 - Anton Charles Pegis (born 1905)