1989 in philosophy

Publications

• Robert L. Holmes, On War and Morality
• Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind
• Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
• Peter Sloterdijk, Infinite Mobilization
• Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self
• Richard Clyde Taylor, Reflective Wisdom
• Slavoj Žižek, ''The Sublime Object of Ideology''

Deaths

• June 27 - A. J. Ayer
• July 2 - Wilfrid Sellars
• July 27 - Dolf Sternberger