// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was 1981 in philosophy a bad year? It had existential debt.
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1981 in philosophy
Events
[edit]Publications
[edit]- 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)
Deaths
[edit]- January 5
- Lanza del Vasto, Italian-born philosopher, poet and activist (b. 1901)[1]
- Frederick Osborn (born 1889)
- February 1 - Morris Weitz (born 1916)
- February 20 - Ioannis Theodorakopoulos (born 1900)
- February 26 - Wilmon Henry Sheldon (born 1875)[2]
- 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)[3]
- October 7 - Huberto Rohden (born 1893)
- November 7 - Will Durant (born 1885)[4]
- November 15 - Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei (born 1903)
- December 2 - Alexis Kagame (born 1912)
- December 12 - J. L. Mackie (born 1917)
- Acharya Rameshwar Jha
References
[edit]- ↑ Galiana, Ismael (1 July 1981). "Murió en Murcia el poeta y pacifista Lanza del Vasto: Apóstol de la no violencia" [The poet and pacifist Lanza del Vasto died in Murcia: Apostle of nonviolence] (PDF). ABC (in Spanish). Madrid. p. 24.[dead link]
- ↑ "Wilmon Henry Sheldon". Oxford Reference. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
- ↑ Praxiology. Państwowe Wydawn. Naukowe. 1983. p. 3.
- ↑ Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Clarage, Elizabeth C. (1999). Who's Who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Phoenix: Oryx Press. p. 257. ISBN 1-57356-111-8. OCLC 750569323 – via Google Books.