1993 in philosophy
Events
Willard Van Orman Quine was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy "for his systematical and penetrating discussions of how learning of language and communication are based on socially available evidence and of the consequences of this for theories on knowledge and linguistic meaning - in particular the works From a Logical Point of View (1953), Word and Object (1960), and Pursuit of Truth (1990, 1992)".
Publications
Hans-Georg Gadamer, The Enigma of Health: The Art of Healing in a Scientific Age, 1993 Norbert Wiener, Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas, 1993 (posthumously) Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter, 1993 Jean-Luc Nancy, The Sense of the World, 1993 (originally published in French as Le sens du monde) Vernor Vinge, The Coming Technological Singularity, 1993 Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community, 1993
Deaths
February 5 - Hans Jonas (born 1903) November 19 - Kenneth Burke (born 1897)