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 (1991)
  • Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World (1991)

Deaths

  • January 23 - Northrop Frye (born 1912)[2]
  • June 11 - Wolfgang Stegmüller (born 1923)
  • June 29 - Henri Lefebvre (born 1901)
  • September 4 - Henri de Lubac (born 1896)
  • November 27 - Vilém Flusser (born 1920)

References

  1. Lewis, Rick. "Philosophy Now - A Magazine of Ideas". Philosophy Documentation Center. http://secure.pdcnet.org/philnow/Philosophy-Now. Retrieved 21 January 2013. 
  2. Flint, Peter B. (25 January 1991). "Northrop Frye, 78, Literary Critic, Theorist and Educator, Is Dead". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/25/obituaries/northrop-frye-78-literary-critic-theorist-and-educator-is-dead.html. Retrieved 21 January 2013. 





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