1996 in philosophy

Events

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Sokal affair The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax, was a demonstrative scholarly publishing sting, scholarly hoax performed by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London. In 1996, Sokal submitted an article t ...

: 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 ''Social Text'' is an academic journal published by Duke University Press. Since its inception by an independent editorial collective in 1979, ''Social Text'' has addressed a wide range of social and cultural phenomena, covering questions of gende ...

'' (

Duke University Press Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University. It was founded in 1921 by William T. Laprade as The Trinity College Press. (Duke University was initially called Trinity College). In 1926 Du ...

) as a critique of the intellectual rigor of

postmodernism Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or Rhetorical modes, mode of discourseNuyen, A.T., 1992. The Role of Rhetorical Devices in Postmodernist Discourse. Philosophy & Rhetoric, pp.183–194. characterized by philosophical skepticism, skepticis ...

in academic

cultural studies Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the political dynamics of contemporary culture (including popular culture) and its historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers generally investigate how cultural practices re ...

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Willard Van Orman Quine Willard Van Orman Quine (; known to his friends as "Van"; June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century". ...

is awarded the

Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy The Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy is awarded once a year by the Inamori Foundation for lifetime achievements in the arts and philosophy. The Prize is one of three Kyoto Prize categories; the others are the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology ...

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."

Publications

* '' Between Facts and Norms'' * '' Blackwell Companion to Philosophy'' * '' Destiny, or The Attraction of Affinities'' * ''

Naïve. Super ''Naïve. Super.'' (Original title: ''Naiv.Super.'') is a novel by the Norwegian author Erlend Loe. It was first published in 1996 in Norwegian, and proved to be very popular. In 2006, it was on the newspaper ''Dagbladet''s list of the best Norw ...

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Pooh and the Philosophers ''Pooh and the Philosophers'' is a 1995 book by John Tyerman Williams, purporting to show how all of Western philosophy from the last 3,000 years was a long preparation for Winnie the Pooh. It was published in 1995 by Dutton in the United States ...

'' * '' Slovenska smer'' * Robert Zubrin's '' The Case for Mars'' * David Chalmers's ''

The Conscious Mind ''The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory'' was published in 1996, and is the first book written by David Chalmers, an Australian philosopher specialising in philosophy of mind. Though the book has been greatly influential, Chalmers ...

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The Global Trap ''Die Globalisierungsfalle: Der Angriff auf Demokratie und Wohlstand'' is a 1996 in literature, 1996 non-fiction book by Hans-Peter Martin (born 1957 in Bregenz, Austria), and Harald Schumann (born 1957 in Kassel, Germany), that describes possibl ...

'' * Terry Eagleton's '' The Illusions of Postmodernism'' * ''

The Origins of Virtue ''The Origins of Virtue'' is a 1996 popular science book by Matt Ridley, which has been recognised as a classic in its field.T. Kealey (2000), ''Nature Genetics'', 24 (21) In the book, Ridley explores the issues surrounding the development of h ...

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The Vision of the Anointed ''The Vision of the Anointed'' (1995) is a book by economist and political columnist Thomas Sowell which brands ''the anointed'' as promoters of a worldview concocted out of fantasy impervious to any real-world considerations. Sowell asserts that ...

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Vita Brevis ''Vita Brevis: A Letter to St Augustine'' ( la, Brief Life; also published in English as ''That Same Flower'') is a novel written by the Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder and originally published in 1996. Gaarder presents the text as written by S ...

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Jürgen Habermas Jürgen Habermas (, ; ; born 18 June 1929) is a German social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addresses communicative rationality and the public sphere. Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas's wor ...

, '' The Inclusion of the Other'' (1996)

Deaths

* January 9 -

Félix González-Torres Félix González-Torres (November 26, 1957 – January 9, 1996) was a Cuban-born American visual artist. González-Torres's openly gay sexual orientation was influential in his work as an artist. González-Torres was known for his minimal inst ...

(born 1957) * January 17 -

Juan Luis Segundo Juan Luis Segundo (March 31, 1925, in Montevideo, Uruguay – January 17, 1996, in Montevideo) was a Jesuit priest and Uruguayan theologian who was an important figure in the movement known as Latin American liberation theology. He wrote numerous ...

(born 1925) * January 22 -

Israel Eldad Israel Eldad () (11 November 1910 – 22 January 1996), was an Israeli Revisionist Zionist philosopher and member of the Jewish underground group Lehi in Mandatory Palestine. Biography Israel Scheib (later Eldad) was born in 1910 in Pidvoloch ...

(born 1910) * February 18 - Frank Sibley (born 1923) * February 28 -

Maximilien Rubel Maximilien Rubel (10 October 1905, in Chernivtsi – 28 February 1996, in Paris) was a famous Marxist historian and council communist. Rubel was born in western Ukraine and was educated in law and philosophy in Vienna and Chernivtsi National Un ...

(born 1905) * March 3 - Marguerite Duras (born 1914) * March 12 -

Archie J. Bahm Archie John Bahm (21 August 1907 – 12 March 1996) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of New Mexico. Biography Bahm served as Acting Chair of the University of New Mexico's Department of Philosophy from 195 ...

(born 1907) * March 28 -

Hans Blumenberg Hans Blumenberg (born 13 July 1920, Lübeck – 28 March 1996, Altenberge) was a German philosopher and intellectual historian. He studied philosophy, German studies and the classics (1939–47, interrupted by World War II) and is considered to be ...

(born 1920) * April 2 -

Jean Elizabeth Hampton Jean Elizabeth Hampton (June 1, 1954 – April 2, 1996) was an American political philosopher, author of ''Hobbes and the Social Contract Tradition'', ''Political Philosophy'', ''The Authority of Reason'', ''The Intrinsic Worth of Persons'' and, ...

(born 1954) * April 18 -

Kalim Siddiqui Kaleem Siddiqui (born 23 September 1957) is an Indian Islamic scholar, preacher, educationist and a prominent member of Tablighi Jamaat. He was detained by ATS of Up police with accusations of mass conversion which nationalist Hindu consider ...

(born 1931) * May 5 -

Donald T. Campbell Donald Thomas Campbell (November 20, 1916 – May 6, 1996) was an American social scientist. He is noted for his work in methodology. He coined the term ''evolutionary epistemology'' and developed a selectionist theory of human creativity. A ''R ...

(born 1916) * May 6 - Richard Robinson (born 1902) * May 21 -

Frederick Wilhelmsen Frederick D. Wilhelmsen (1923 – 21 May 1996) was a distinguished Catholic philosopher, noted, both as a professor and as a writer, for his explication and advancement of the Thomistic tradition. He also was a political commentator, assessing ...

(born 1923) * May 22 - Timothy Leary (born 1920) * May 27 -

George Boolos George Stephen Boolos (; 4 September 1940 – 27 May 1996) was an American philosopher and a mathematical logician who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Life Boolos is of Greek-Jewish descent. He graduated with an A.B. in ...

(born 1940) * June 6 -

José María Valverde José María Valverde Pacheco (26 January 1926, Valencia de Alcántara (Cáceres) – 6 June 1996, Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community o ...

(born 1926) * June 16 -

Richard Sylvan Richard Sylvan (13 December 1935 – 16 June 1996) was a New Zealand–born philosopher, logician, and environmentalist. Biography Sylvan was born Francis Richard Routley in Levin, New Zealand, and his early work is cited with this surname. H ...

(born 1935) * June 17 -

Thomas Kuhn Thomas Samuel Kuhn (; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American philosopher of science whose 1962 book ''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'' was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term '' paradigm ...

(born 1922) * June 18 -

Branko Bošnjak Branko Bošnjak (14 January 1923 – 18 June 1996) was a Croatian philosopher, member of the Praxis school in the former Yugoslavia. Bošnjak was a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb and for a period a head of the D ...

(born 1923) * July 21 - Macha Rosenthal (born 1917) * August 4 -

Intisar-ul-Haque Intisar-Ul-Haque (20 October 1935 – 4 August 1996) was a Pakistani philosopher. He served as the chairman of the Department of Philosophy, at University of Peshawar and held the postdoctoral Alexander von Humboldt Senior Fellowship, Germany 1 ...

(born 1935) * August 6 -

Gabriel Nuchelmans Gabriel Nuchelmans (15 May 1922, Oud Gastel – 6 August 1996, Wassenaar) was a Dutch philosopher, focusing on the history of philosophy, especially philosophy of the Middle Ages, as well as logic and philosophy of language. Biography After comple ...

(born 1922) * August 16 -

Maurice Natanson Maurice Alexander Natanson (November 26, 1924 – August 16, 1996) was an American philosopher "who helped introduce the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and Edmund Husserl in the United States". He was a student of Alfred Schutz at the New School for S ...

(born 1924) * September 21 -

Henri Nouwen Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen (January 24, 1932 – September 21, 1996) was a Dutch Catholic priest, professor, writer and theologian. His interests were rooted primarily in psychology, pastoral ministry, spirituality, social justice and commu ...

(born 1932) * October 11 - Edith Penrose (born 1914) * October 21 -

Léon Ashkenazi Rav Yehuda Leon Ashkenazi (French spelling Léon Askénazi; Arabic: يهودا ليون اشكنازي; Hebrew: יהודא ליאון אשכנזי), also known as Manitou (June 21, 1922 in Oran, Algiers – October 21, 1996 in Jerusalem, Israe ...

(born 1922) * October 27 - David H. M. Brooks (born 1950) * December 9 - Raphael Samuel (born 1934) * December 13 - Waheed Akhtar (born 1934) * December 20 -

Osvaldo Lira José Luis Osvaldo Lira Pérez Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, SS.CC. (February 11, 1904, in Santiago, Chile – December 20, 1996, in Santiago) was a Chilean priest, philosopher and theologian who wrote more than 10 books on to ...

(born 1904) * December 20 -

Carl Sagan Carl Edward Sagan (; ; November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on ext ...

(born 1934) *

Abdoldjavad Falaturi Abdoldjavad Falaturi (1926–1996) ( fa, عبدالجواد فلاطوری) was a German scholar of Iranian origin. Education He attended a German-Persian high school in his hometown of Isfahan and took private lessons in Arabic literature and ...

(born 1926) *

Simon Soloveychik Simon L'vovich Soloveychik (1930–1996) was a Russian publicist, educator and social philosopher. Brief biography Simon Soloveychik was born in a Jewish family. His father, Lev I. Soloveychik, was editor, writer and administrator at the ''Krasnay ...

* Ajahn Thate *

Thomas Tymoczko A. Thomas Tymoczko (September 1, 1943August 8, 1996) was a philosopher specializing in logic and the philosophy of mathematics. He taught at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts from 1971 until his death from stomach cancer in 1996, aged 52. ...

* Robert Weingard

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