1968 in philosophy
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1968 in philosophy
Events
- Lewis White Beck and Robert L. Holmes collaborate at the University of Rochester in the authorship of Philosophic Inquiry: An Introduction to Philosophy (Prentice-Hall, 1968).[https://books.google.com/books?id=K7cXtgEACAAJ Philosophic Inquiry: An Introduction to Philosophy Beck, Lewis White and Holmes, Robert L. Prentice-Hall. 1968 on Google Books]
Publications
- Michael Polanyi, Life's Irreducible Structure (1968)
- Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1968)
- Hans Albert, Treatise on Critical Reason (1968)
- Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition (1968)
- Taylor, Richard Clyde, "Dare to be Wise", The Review of Metaphysics, Vol, 21, No, 4, pp. 615-629 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20124689 "The Review of Metaphysics"; "Dare to be Wise" The Philosophy Education Society Vol. 21 No. 4 (June 1968) pp.615-629 "Dare to be Wise" by Richard Taylor on JSTOR.org]
- James D. Watson, The Double Helix (1968)
- Jürgen Habermas, Knowledge and Human Interests (originally published in German as Erkenntnis und Interesse; English translation: 1972)
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding '[year] in philosophy' article
- July 11 – Mark Fisher, 48, British writer, music journalist (The Wire, Fact), and cultural theorist. His most influential work was published in 2009: Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? (d. 2017)
- Julian Baggini
Deaths
- June 4 - Alexandre Kojève (born 1902){{cite web|title=Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968)|url=http://www.iep.utm.edu/kojeve/|publisher=Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP)|accessdate=23 January 2013}}
- December 10 - Karl Barth (born 1886)