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)
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
- Lewis, Rick. "Philosophy Now - A Magazine of Ideas". Philosophy Documentation Center. Archived from the original on 2012-09-18. 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.
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