1981 in philosophy
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1981 in philosophy
Events
Publications
- Peter Singer, The Expanding Circle (1981)
- Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue (1981)
- Robert Nozick, Philosophical Explanations (1981)
- Jürgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action (1981)
- Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
Births
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Deaths
- January 5
- Lanza del Vasto, Italian-born philosopher, poet and activist (b. 1901){{cite news |last=Galiana |first=Ismael |date=1 July 1981 |title=Murió en Murcia el poeta y pacifista Lanza del Vasto: Apóstol de la no violencia |trans-title=The poet and pacifist Lanza del Vasto died in Murcia: Apostle of nonviolence |work=ABC |location=Madrid |page=24 |language=es |url=http://hemeroteca.abc.es/cgi-bin/pagina.pdf?fn=exec;command=stamp;path=H:%5Ccran%5Cdata%5Cprensa_pages%5CMadrid%5CABC%5C1981%5C198101%5C19810107%5C81E07-032.xml;id=0001341288 }}
- Frederick Osborn (born 1889)
- February 1 - Morris Weitz (born 1916)
- February 20 - Ioannis Theodorakopoulos (born 1900)
- February 26 - Wilmon Henry Sheldon (born 1875){{cite web|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100500777|title=Wilmon Henry Sheldon|website=Oxford Reference|access-date=May 22, 2021}}
- March 8 - Joseph Henry Woodger (born 1894)
- March 28 - Tadeusz Czeżowski (born 1889)
- June 16 - Julius Ebbinghaus (born 1885)
- July 27 - Paul Brunton (born 1898)
- August 5 - Jerzy Neyman (born 1894)
- September 2 - Knud Ejler Løgstrup (born 1905)
- September 8 - Nisargadatta Maharaj (born 1897)
- September 9 - Jacques Lacan (born 1901)
- September 23 - Notonagoro (born 1905)
- September 24 - Brahmarishi Hussain Sha (born 1905)
- September 29 - Ksenija Atanasijević
- October 3 - Tadeusz Kotarbiński (born 1886){{cite book|title=Praxiology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uUYqAQAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Państwowe Wydawn. Naukowe|page=3}}
- October 7 - Huberto Rohden (born 1893)
- November 7 - Will Durant (born 1885){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&q=%22will+durant%22+%22Ariel+kaufman%22&pg=PA257|title=Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners|page=257|last1=Brennan|first1=Elizabeth A.|last2=Clarage|first2=Elizabeth C.|place=Phoenix|publisher=Oryx Press|year=1999|isbn=1-57356-111-8|oclc=750569323|via=Google Books}}
- November 15 - Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei (born 1903)
- December 2 - Alexis Kagame (born 1912)
- December 12 - J. L. Mackie (born 1917)
- Acharya Rameshwar Jha