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2017 in philosophy
Events
[edit]- August – Kialo is founded, a website for collaborative argument maps for a large variety of subjects including many philosophical questions and issues where different philosophical perspectives and claims are integrated into and scrutinized in one structure.[1][2]
- December 15–16 – a conference in memory of Derek Parfit is held at Rutgers University, organized jointly with New York University.
- Hypatia transracialism controversy
- Jack Copeland is awarded the 2017 Barwise Prize.
- Onora O'Neill wins the 2017 Berggruen Prize.[4]
- Emily Grosholz is awarded the Fernando Gil International Prize for the Philosophy of Science.
- Wolfram Groddeck is awarded the 2017 Friedrich Nietzsche Prize.
- Margaret Morrison and Michael Strevens are awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in philosophy.
- Étienne Balibar is presented a Hannah Arendt Award.
- Onora O'Neill is awarded the 2017 Holberg Prize.
- John Campbell is awarded the 2017 Jean Nicod Prize.
- Jan Assmann and Aleida Assmann are awarded the Karl Jaspers Prize.
- Craig Callender is awarded the Lakatos Award.
- Ruth Millikan is awarded the Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy.
- Ruth Millikan is awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy.
- Alvin Plantinga is awarded the Templeton Prize.
Publications
[edit]The following list is arranged alphabetically:
- Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek & Peter Singer, Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press)
- Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (Oxford University Press)
- Michael Ruse, On Purpose, (Princeton University Press).
- Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide, (Princeton University Press)
- George Sher, Me, You, Us (Oxford University Press)
- Peter Singer, (ed.), Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity (Oxford University Press).
- Jeremy Waldron, One Another's Equals: The Basis of Human Equality (Harvard University Press)
Deaths
[edit]Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in philosophy" article:
- January 1 – Derek Parfit, 75, British philosopher, specialist in personal identity, rationality, and ethics (born 1942).
- January 7 – John Deely, 74, American philosopher and semiotician (born 1942)
- January 9 – Zygmunt Bauman, 91, Polish sociologist and philosopher (born 1925).
- January 13 – Mark Fisher, 48, British writer, music journalist (The Wire, Fact) and cultural theorist whose most influential work is Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? (2009) (born 1968).
- February 1 – Tzvetan Todorov, 77, Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist, essayist and geologist (born 1939).
- February 17 – Tom Regan, 78, American philosopher, specialist in animal rights theory (born 1938).
- March 14 – André Tosel, 75, French Marxist philosopher (born 1941).[5]
- April 22 – Hubert Dreyfus, 87, American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley (born 1929).
- April 24 – Robert M. Pirsig, 88, American writer and philosopher (born 1928).
- May 15 – Karl-Otto Apel, 95, German philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Frankfurt am Main (born 1922).
- October 1 – István Mészáros, 86, Hungarian-born Marxist philosopher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex (born 1930).
- November 29 – Jerry Fodor, 82, American philosopher and cognitive scientist (born 1935).
References
[edit]- ^ Margolis, Jonathan (January 24, 2018). "Meet the start-up that wants to sell you civilised debate". Financial Times. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
- ^ June, Audrey Williams (March 25, 2018). "How to Promote Enlightened Debate Online". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
- ^ Bolton, Eric; Calderwood, Alex; Christensen, Niles; Kafrouni, Jerome; Drori, Iddo (2020). "High Quality Real-Time Structured Debate Generation". arXiv:2012.00209 [cs.CL].
- ^ Jennifer Schuessler (October 3, 2017). "Onora O'Neill Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy". The New York Times.
- ^ André Tosel, philosophe niçois de renom, nous a quittés. (in French)
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