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) References Philosophy 1970-related lists 20th-century philosophy Philosophy by year