May - Sokal affair: American mathematical physicist Alan Sokal hoaxes the editors into publishing a deliberately nonsensical paper, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", in a "science wars" issue of the journal Social Text (Duke University Press) as a critique of the intellectual rigor of postmodernism in academic cultural studies.
Willard Van Orman Quine is awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for his "outstanding contributions to the progress of philosophy in the 20th century by proposing numerous theories based on keen insights in logic, epistemology, philosophy of science and philosophy of language."
Between Facts and Norms
Blackwell Companion to Philosophy
Destiny, or The Attraction of Affinities
Naïve. Super
Pooh and the Philosophers
Slovenska smer
Robert Zubrin's The Case for Mars
David Chalmers's The Conscious Mind
The Global Trap
Terry Eagleton's The Illusions of Postmodernism
The Origins of Virtue
The Vision of the Anointed
Vita Brevis
Jürgen Habermas, The Inclusion of the Other (1996)
Waheed Akhtar
Léon Ashkenazi
Archie J. Bahm
Hans Blumenberg (March 28)
George Boolos
Branko Bošnjak
David H. M. Brooks
Donald T. Campbell
Marguerite Duras
Israel Eldad
Abdoldjavad Falaturi
Félix González-Torres
Jean Elizabeth Hampton
Intisar-ul-Haque
Thomas Kuhn (June 17)
Timothy Leary
Osvaldo Lira
Maurice Natanson
Henri Nouwen
Gabriel Nuchelmans
Edith Penrose
Richard Robinson
Macha Rosenthal
Maximilien Rubel
Raphael Samuel
Carl Sagan
Juan Luis Segundo
Frank Sibley
Kalim Siddiqui
Simon Soloveychik
Richard Sylvan
Ajahn Thate
Thomas Tymoczko
José María Valverde
Robert Weingard
Frederick Wilhelmsen
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