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1931 in philosophy was a critical year for the publication of a number of important works.

Contents

• Events
• Publications
• Births
• Deaths
• References

Events

Publications

• Kurt Gödel, On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems (1931)

Births

• April 16 - Leo Bersani (died 2022)
• May 19 - Alfred Schmidt (died 2012) ^[1]
• June 3 - John Norman
• August 4 - Paul Avrich (died 2006)
• August 8 - Roger Penrose
• September 3 - Samir Amin (died 2018)
• September 29 - Sydney Shoemaker (died 2022)
• October 4 - Richard Rorty (died 2007)
• November 5 - Charles Taylor ^[2]
• December 11 - Ronald Dworkin (died 2013)
• December 28 - Guy Debord (died 1994)

Deaths

• April 10 - Kahlil Gibran (born 1883)
• April 26 - George Herbert Mead (born 1863)

References