1970 in philosophy
# 1970 in philosophy

1970 in philosophy

## Publications

* Hannah Arendt, On Violence
* Phillipa Foot, Morality and Art, Oxford University Press
* Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (translation from French), London: Tavistock Publications
* Alvin Goldman, A Theory of Human Action, Prentice-Hall
* D. Z. Phillips, Faith and Philosophical Inquiry, London: Routledge
* W. V. O. Quine, Philosophy of Logic, Prentice-Hall
* Nicholas Rescher, Scientific Explanation, New York: The Free Press
* John Searle, Speech Acts
* Richard Swinburne, The Concept of Miracle
* Mary Warnock, Existentialism, Oxford University Press
* Nicholas Wolterstorff, On Universals–An Essay in Ontology, University of Chicago Press

## Births

* February 21 - Christian Lotz
* March 6 - Vincent F. Hendricks
* March 20 - Robert Arp
* April 22 - Nicole C. Karafyllis
* September 1 - Sam Gillespie (died 2003)
* September 16 - Lars Svendsen
* Cressida Heyes
* William Irwin (philosopher)
* Daniel Ross (philosopher)
* Kyle Stanford
* Yannis Stavrakakis
* Robert B. Talisse

## Deaths

* January 6 - Philip Wheelwright (born 1901)
* January 7 - Fritz Heinemann (born 1889)
* February 2 - Bertrand Russell (born 1872)
* February 3 - Max Hamburger (born 1897)
* April 4 - Khoren Sargsian (born 1891)
* June 14 - Roman Ingarden (born 1893)
* July 23 - K. N. Jayatilleke (born 1920)
* August 17 - Harry Allen Overstreet (born 1875)
* September 2 - Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (born 1918)
* September 14 - Rudolf Carnap (born 1891)
* October 8 - Lucien Goldmann (born 1913)
* October 12 - Andreas Speiser (born 1885)
* October 30 - Heinrich Blücher (born 1899)
* December 16 - Friedrich Pollock (born 1894)
* December 21 - Johannes Jacobus Poortman (born 1896)
* December 23 - Carlos Astrada (born 1894)
