1991 in philosophy
# 1991 in philosophy

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".

## 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)
* 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)
