1972 in philosophy

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1972 in philosophy

Events

Davidson, D. and G. Harman (ed.) Semantics of Natural Language, Dordrecht; Boston: Reidel.
- Kripke, Saul, "Naming and Necessity." (Published separately in 1980; setting out the causal theory of reference.)
- Lakoff, George, "Linguistics and Natural Logic."
- Stalnaker, Robert, "Pragmatics."
Dreyfus, Hubert, What Computers Can't Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence (Rev. ed., 1979)
Popper, Karl, 'Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach (Rev. ed., 1979)