1986 in philosophy

Events

Publications

• Saunders Mac Lane, Mathematics, Form and Function
• Hans Blumenberg, Lebenszeit und Weltzeit (not yet translated into English)
• David Gauthier, Morals by Agreement
• David Lewis, On the Plurality of Worlds
• Martha Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness
• Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

Deaths

• January 9 - Michel de Certeau (born 1925)
• February 17 - Jiddu Krishnamurti (born 1895)
• February 19 - André Leroi-Gourhan (born 1911)
• April 14 - Simone de Beauvoir (born 1908)^[1]