1971 in philosophy
Events
Chomsky–Foucault debate
Publications
G.E.M. Anscombe, Causality and Determination, Cambridge University Press
A.J. Ayer, Russell and Moore: The Analytical Heritage, London: Macmillan
Keith Campbell, Body and Mind, New York: Doubleday
R. G. Collingwood, Ruskin's Philosophy, Chicester: Quentin Nelson
Dorothy Emmet and Alasdair MacIntyre (ed.) Sociological Theory and Philosophical Analysis, New York: Macmillan Antony Flew, An Introduction to Western Philosophy, London: Thames & Hudson John Hick, Arguments for the Existence of God, London: Macmillan Alasdair MacIntyre, Against the Self-Images of the Age: Essays on Ideology and Philosophy. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (first edition), Harvard University Press John Searle (ed.), The Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press P.F. Strawson, Logico-Linguistic Papers, London: Methuen G.J. Warnock, The Object of Morality, London: Methuen Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
Deaths
May 5: W. D. Ross, Scottish philosopher (born 1877)