1971 in philosophy

1971 in philosophy

Events

• Chomsky–Foucault debate
• Lewis White Beck presents his paper Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life as President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association during its sixty-eighth meeting in New York City in an effort to engage in rational cosmological speculation.

Publications

• G. E. M. Anscombe, Causality and Determination, Cambridge University Press
• A. J. Ayer, Russell and Moore: The Analytical Heritage, London: Macmillan
• Keith Campbell, Body and Mind, New York: Doubleday
• R. G. Collingwood, Ruskin's Philosophy, Chicester: Quentin Nelson
• Dorothy Emmet and Alasdair MacIntyre (ed.) Sociological Theory and Philosophical Analysis, New York: Macmillan
• Antony Flew, An Introduction to Western Philosophy, London: Thames & Hudson
• John Hick, Arguments for the Existence of God, London: Macmillan
• Alasdair MacIntyre, Against the Self-Images of the Age: Essays on Ideology and Philosophy.
• John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (first edition), Harvard University Press
• John Searle (ed.), The Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press
• P. F. Strawson, Logico-Linguistic Papers, London: Methuen
• Geoffrey Warnock, The Object of Morality, London: Methuen
• Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society

Deaths

• May 5: W. D. Ross, Scottish philosopher (born 1877)