1978 in philosophy

1978 in philosophy

Events

Publications

• Critical Inquiry, Special Issue: On Metaphor (Volume 5, Number 1)
  • Ted Cohen, "Metaphor and the Cuiltivation of Intimacy" (Excerpt)
  • Paul de Man, "The Epistemology of Metaphor" (Excerpt)
  • Donald Davidson, "What Metaphors Mean" Excerpt)
  • Wayne C. Booth, "Metaphor as Rhetoric: The Problem of Evaluation" (Excerpt)
  • Karsten Harries, "Metaphor and Transcendence" (Excerpt)
  • David Tracy, "Metaphor and Religion: The Test Case of Christian Texts" (Excerpt)
  • Richard Shiff, "Art and Life: A Metaphoric Relationship" (Excerpt)
  • Howard Gardner and Ellen Winner, "The Development of Metaphoric Competence: Implications for Humanistic Disciplines" (Excerpt)
  • Paul Ricoeur, "The Metaphorical Process as Cognition, Imagination, and Feeling" (Excerpt)
  • Afterthoughts on Metaphor
  • W.V. Quine, "A Postscript on Metaphor" (Excerpt)
  • Don R. Swanson, "Toward a Psychology of Metaphor" (Excerpt)
  • Karsten Harries, "The Many Uses of Metaphor" (Excerpt)
  • Wayne C. Booth, "Ten Literal 'Theses'" (Excerpt)
  • Critical Responses
  • I. Margaret Schaefer, "Psychoanalysis and the Marionette Theater: Interpretation Is Not Depreciation" (Excerpt)
  • Heinz Kohut, "A Reply to Maragaret Schaefer" (Excerpt)
  • In the end
  • Kenneth Burke, "A Critical Load, Beyond That Door..." (Excerpt)
• McDowell, John, “On ‘The Reality of the Past’”, in Christopher Hookway and Philip Pettit, eds., Action and Interpretation (CUP, Cambridge), pp. 127-44
• McDowell, John, “Are Moral Requirements Hypothetical Imperatives?”, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume lii, 13-29
• McDowell, John, “Physicalism and Primitive Denotation”, Erkenntnis, xiii, pp. 131–52
• Putnam, Hilary, Meaning and the Moral Sciences. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul

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