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

• 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. Archived from the original on 2012-09-18. 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. Retrieved 21 January 2013.