Pragmatics/History/1970s

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The later half of this decade was revolutionary indeed! Since 1975, many scholars began to take very seriously such ideas as metaphor, implication, ambiguity, and the like, of language, which are the common and varied aspects of such a loose ordinary language that it had hardly mattered in science.

No one may not have questioned why such academically unusual questions arose all of a sudden. Was it purely accidental and coincidental? They may say either yes or no. Anyway there must be why in the right way. Such a wide range of consilience would be hardly accidental.

1975 Krishnamurti


Jiddu Krishnamurti (c. 1975) explained: "it is like a man who is hungry. Any amount of description of the right kind of food will never satisfy him. He is hungry, he wants food."

1975 Pask



 * See also
 * as to "learning style"

1975 Putnam


Putnam's "anti-subjectivist revolution" is diametrically contrasted with the humanist or anti-objectivist revolution, as suddenly getting torrent since the 1973 oil crisis, as illustrated by, , , , and many others. He looks not so much revolutionary as reactionary.

1976 Axelrod

 * Axelrod, Robert (1976), Structure of Decision: The Cognitive Map of Political Elites, Princeton University Press.
 * Axelrod, Robert (1976), Structure of Decision: The Cognitive Map of Political Elites, Princeton University Press.


 * Michael D. Cohen, James G. March & Johan P. Olsen (1972). "A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice". Administrative Science Quarterly 17 (1): 1–25.
 * Axelrod, Robert & Hamilton, William D. (1981), "The Evolution of Cooperation", Science, 211 (4489): 1390–96.
 * Cohen, Michael D. (1982). "The Power of Parallel Thinking". Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 2(4): 285–306.
 * Axelrod, Robert (1984), The Evolution of Cooperation, Basic Books.
 * Cohen, Michael D. & Robert Axelrod (1984). "Coping with Complexity: The Adaptive Value of Changing Utilities". American Economic Review 74 (1): 30–42.
 * Cohen, Michael D. & James G. March (1986). Leadership and Ambiguity: The American College Presidency (2 ed.). Boston: Harvard Business School Press. pp. 320. (1st ed., 1974, New York: McGraw-Hill)

1976 Chisholm


Suggesting pragmatics, the title is deliberately contrasted with

1979 McCorduck



 * http://www.pamelamc.com/html/machines_who_think.html


 * See also
 * ../1970s
 * ../1980s