1985 in philosophy

Events

• Lewis White Beck contributes to the establishment of the North American Kant Society in the United States.

Publications

• Nick Herbert, Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics
• Mou Zongsan, 圓善論
• Bernard Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
• Amartya Sen, Commodities and Capabilities
• Richard Clyde Taylor, Ethics, Faith and Reason
• Jürgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
• ''Between the Species''

Deaths

• January 19 - Eric Voegelin
• April 7 - Carl Schmitt
• June 12 - Helmuth Plessner