1991 in philosophy
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1991 in philosophy
Events
- The philosophy magazine Philosophy Now was founded in 1991. According to the Philosophy Documentation Center it "has become the most widely read philosophy publication in the English-speaking world".[1]
Publications
Monographies and essays
- Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained (1991)
- Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern (1991)
- Robert B. Pippin, Modernism as a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture (1991)
- Manuel de Landa, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991)
- David Gelernter, Mirror Worlds (1991)
- Jürgen Habermas, Justification and Application: Remarks on Discourse Ethics (1991, English translation: 1993)
- Thomas Nagel, Equality and Partiality (1991)
- David Lewis, Parts of Classes (1991)
Philosophical fiction
- Robert M. Pirsig, Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991)
- Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World (1991)
Deaths
- Northrop Frye (January 23)[2]
- Wolfgang Stegmüller (June 11)
- Henri Lefebvre (June 29)
- Henri de Lubac (September 4)
- Vilém Flusser (November 27)
References
- ↑ Lewis, Rick. "Philosophy Now - A Magazine of Ideas". Philosophy Documentation Center. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
- ↑ Flint, Peter B. (25 January 1991). "Northrop Frye, 78, Literary Critic, Theorist and Educator, Is Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 January 2013.