2001 in philosophy

Events

• Saul Kripke was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy "for his creation of the modal-logical semantics that bear his name and for his associated original and profound investigations of identity, reference and necessity".

Publications

• Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
• Alain Finkielkraut, The Internet, The Troubling Ecstasy
• John A. Leslie, Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology
• Mario Bunge, ''Philosophy in Crisis: The Need for Reconstruction''

Introductory Books

• Michael Williams, ''Problems Of Knowledge: A Critical Introduction to Epistemology''

Deaths

• January 5 - G. E. M. Anscombe
• February 9 - Herbert A. Simon
• February 24 - Claude Shannon
• April 24 - Paul Thieme
• May 28 - Francisco Varela
• June 28 - Mortimer J. Adler
• August 12 - Pierre Klossowski
• September 30 - John C. Lilly
• October 14 - David Lewis
• December 20 - Léopold Sédar Senghor