1996 in philosophy
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1996 in philosophy
Events
- 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)[1] as a critique of the intellectual rigor of postmodernism in academic cultural studies.[2]
- 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."[3]
Publications
- 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)
Deaths
- 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
References
- ^ Sokal, Alan D. (1996). "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity". Social Text. 46/47: 217–252. doi:10.2307/466856. JSTOR 466856.
- ^ Sokal, Alan D. (May 1996). "A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies". Lingua Franca. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
- ^ "Willard Van Orman Quine". Inamori Foundation. Retrieved 2012-12-15.