1980 in philosophy

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1980 in philosophy

Events

• November 16 - Louis Althusser strangles his wife, Hélène Rytman, to death, following a period of mental instability.

Publications

• David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order
• Ronna Burger, Plato's Phaedrus: A Defense of a Philosophic Art of Writing
• Donald Davidson, Essays on Actions and Events
• Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
• Peter Geach and Max Black, Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege
• Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity
• George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By
• Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard, Entropy: A New World View (with an afterword by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen)
• John Searle, "Minds, Brains, and Programs"

Births

• October 2 - Henry Bugalho

Deaths

• March 18 - Erich Fromm (born 1900)
• March 26 - Roland Barthes (born 1915)
• April 9 - Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, executed (born 1935)
• April 15 - Jean-Paul Sartre (born 1905)
• July 1 - C. P. Snow (born 1905)
• July 4 - Gregory Bateson (born 1904)
• August 10 - Gareth Evans (born 1946)
• September 4 - Walter Kaufmann (born 1921)
• September 16 - Jean Piaget (born 1896)
• December 31 - Marshall McLuhan (born 1911)