1972 in philosophy

• 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)

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

• 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