2007 in philosophy
'''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