2014 in philosophy
'''2014 in philosophy'''
Events
- July 16-19 - The Charles S. Pierce International Centennial Congress was held at the University of Massachusetts Lowell in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the death of Charles Sanders Peirce. According to the Charles S. Peirce Foundation, "the aim of the Centennial Congress is to advance scholarship on all aspects of Peirce's thought and biography, and to investigate the relevance and potential of his philosophy for the 21st century - for contemporary philosophical debates and beyond".
- September 25-27 - Faith and Reason: Themes from Swinburne was held at Purdue University in celebration of the life and works of Richard Swinburne. Various philosophers presented in the conference, some of whom include: Alvin Plantinga, Dean Zimmerman, Eleonore Stump, Laura Ekstrom, Marilyn McCord Adams, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Paul Draper and Peter van Inwagen.
Publications
- Louis Althusser - On The Reproduction Of Capitalism: Ideology And Ideological State Apparatuses
- Diego Bubbio- Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition
- Sam Harris - Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
- Robert L. Holmes - Basic Moral Philosophy
- Lee Smolin & Roberto Mangabeira Unger - The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time
- Peter Sloterdijk - Globes: Spheres Volume II: Macrospherology
- Peter Unger, Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy
- Valtteri Viljanen - ''Spinoza's Geometry of Power''
Deaths
- January 5 - E. J. Lowe
- February 16 - Israel Scheffler
- March 5 - Luis Villoro
- March 14 - Ted Cohen
- April 21 - James Higginbotham
- May 13 - David Malet Armstrong
- October 2 - Fred Sommers
- November 17 - Patrick Suppes
- December 3 - Nathaniel Branden