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".{{cite web|last=Lewis|first=Rick|title=Philosophy Now - A Magazine of Ideas|url=http://secure.pdcnet.org/philnow/Philosophy-Now|publisher=Philosophy Documentation Center|accessdate=21 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918085258/http://secure.pdcnet.org/philnow/Philosophy-Now|archive-date=2012-09-18|url-status=dead}}
Publications
= [[Monography|Monographies]] and [[essay]]s =
- 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){{cite news|last=Flint|first=Peter B.|title=Northrop Frye, 78, Literary Critic, Theorist and Educator, Is Dead|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/25/obituaries/northrop-frye-78-literary-critic-theorist-and-educator-is-dead.html|accessdate=21 January 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=25 January 1991}}
- 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)