1981 in philosophy

Events

• Gadamer–Derrida debate

  Publications

• Peter Singer, The Expanding Circle
• Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
• Robert Nozick, Philosophical Explanations
• Jürgen Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action
• Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

  Births

Deaths

• January 5 - Frederick Osborn
• February 1 - Morris Weitz
• February 20 - Ioannis Theodorakopoulos
• March 8 - Joseph Henry Woodger
• March 28 - Tadeusz Czeżowski
• June 16 - Julius Ebbinghaus
• July 27 - Paul Brunton
• August 5 - Jerzy Neyman
• September 2 - Knud Ejler Løgstrup
• September 8 - Nisargadatta Maharaj
• September 9 - Jacques Lacan
• September 23 - Notonagoro
• September 24 - Brahmarishi Hussain Sha
• October 3 - Tadeusz Kotarbiński
• November 7 - Will Durant
• November 15 - Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei
• December 2 - Alexis Kagame
• December 12 - J. L. Mackie
• Ksenija Atanasijević
• Acharya Rameshwar Jha
• Huberto Rohden
• Wilmon Henry Sheldon