1970 in philosophy

Publications

• Hannah Arendt, On Violence
• Phillipa Foot, Morality and Art, Oxford University Press
• Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, 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
• September 16 - Lars Svendsen
• Cressida Heyes
• William Irwin
• Daniel Ross
• Kyle Stanford
• Yannis Stavrakakis
• Robert B. Talisse

  Deaths

• January 6 - Philip Wheelwright
• January 7 - Fritz Heinemann
• February 2 - Bertrand Russell
• February 3 - Max Hamburger
• April 4 - Khoren Sargsian
• June 14 - Roman Ingarden
• July 23 - K. N. Jayatilleke
• August 17 - Harry Allen Overstreet
• September 2 - Vasyl Sukhomlynsky
• September 14 - Rudolf Carnap
• October 8 - Lucien Goldmann
• October 12 - Andreas Speiser
• October 30 - Heinrich Blücher
• December 16 - Friedrich Pollock
• December 21 - Johannes Jacobus Poortman
• December 23 - Carlos Astrada