1968 in philosophy

1968 in philosophy

Events

• Lewis White Beck and Robert L. Holmes collaborate at the University of Rochester in the authorship of Philosophic Inquiry: An Introduction to Philosophy (Prentice-Hall, 1968).^[1]

Publications

• Michael Polanyi, Life's Irreducible Structure (1968)
• Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1968)
• Hans Albert, Treatise on Critical Reason (1968)
• Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition (1968)
• Taylor, Richard Clyde, "Dare to be Wise", The Review of Metaphysics, Vol, 21, No, 4, pp. 615-629 ^[2]
• James D. Watson, The Double Helix (1968)
• Jürgen Habermas, Knowledge and Human Interests (originally published in German as Erkenntnis und Interesse; English translation: 1972)

Philosophical literature

• Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)

Births

Death years link to the corresponding '[year] in philosophy' article

• July 11 – Mark Fisher, 48, British writer, music journalist (The Wire, Fact), and cultural theorist. His most influential work was published in 2009: Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? (d. 2017)
• Julian Baggini

Deaths

• June 4 - Alexandre Kojève (born 1902)^[3]
• December 10 - Karl Barth (born 1886)