1972 in philosophy
# 1972 in philosophy

1972 in philosophy

## Publications

* Davidson, D. and Harman, G. (ed.) Semantics of Natural Language, Dordrecht; Boston: Reidel
* Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Félix, L'anti-Oedipe, (Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1972).
* 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)
* Kahneman, Daniel and Tversky, Amos, "Subjective probability", Cognitive Psychology 3:430–454
* Popper, Karl, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach (Rev. ed., 1979)

## Births

* May 13 - Mohammed Chaouki Zine
* October 1 - Mantas Adomėnas
* December 24 - Ingo Zechner
* Austin Dacey
* Edward Jones-Imhotep
* Erik Del Bufalo, Venezuelan philosopher

## Deaths

* January 5 - Paul Diel (born 1893)
* February 14 - Gerhard Krüger (philosopher) (born 1902)
* February 17 - Ion Petrovici (born 1882)
* February 29 - Pietro Ubaldi (born 1886)
* May 1 - Stephen Pepper (born 1891)
* August 20 - Nichifor Crainic (born 1889)
* October 23 - John Daniel Wild (born 1902)
* November 17 - Eugène Minkowski (born 1885)
* December 23 - Abraham Joshua Heschel (born 1907)
* Gregorio Bermann
* Zhu Qianzhi
