2007 in philosophy

Events

• The French philosopher André Gorz committed suicide together with his incurably ill wife, Dorine, on 22 September 2007 in Vosnon, France. The French news agency Agence France-Presse stated that "the couple were found by a friend side by side in their home southeast of Paris surrounded by letters written to close friends and relatives."

Publications

• Ray Brassier, "Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction"
• Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity
• Owen Flanagan, The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
• Christopher Janaway, Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy
• Richard Kraut, What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being
• John A. Leslie, Immortality Defended
• Quee Nelson, The Slightest Philosophy
• Charles Taylor, A Secular Age
• Alan Weisman, ''The World Without Us''

[Philosophical literature]

• Ron Cooper, ''Hume's Fork''

Deaths

• March 6 - Jean Baudrillard
• April 28 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
• June 8 - Richard Rorty
• August 19 - Balthazar Barbosa Filho
• September 22 - André Gorz
• October 12 - Marianne Katoppo