2017 in philosophy
'''2017 in philosophy'''
Events
- 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.
- October 2 - Robert L. Holmes delivers his lecture "The Significance of Violence in Today's World" at the United Nations International Day of Nonviolence.
- 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.
- 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
The following list is arranged alphabetically:- Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek & Peter Singer, Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction
- Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
- Michael Ruse, On Purpose,.
- Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide,
- George Sher, Me, You, Us
- Peter Singer,, Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity.
- Jeremy Waldron, ''One Another's Equals: The Basis of Human Equality''
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in philosophy" article:- January 1 – Derek Parfit, 75, British philosopher, specialist in personal identity, rationality, and ethics.
- January 7 – John Deely, 74, American philosopher and semiotician
- January 9 – Zygmunt Bauman, 91, Polish sociologist and philosopher.
- January 13 – Mark Fisher, 48, British writer, music journalist and cultural theorist whose most influential work is Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? .
- February 1 – Tzvetan Todorov, 77, Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist, essayist and geologist.
- February 17 – Tom Regan, 78, American philosopher, specialist in animal rights theory.
- March 14 – André Tosel, 75, French Marxist philosopher.
- April 22 – Hubert Dreyfus, 87, American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
- April 24 – Robert M. Pirsig, 88, American writer and philosopher.
- May 15 – Karl-Otto Apel, 95, German philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Frankfurt am Main.
- October 1 – István Mészáros, 86, Hungarian-born Marxist philosopher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex.
- November 29 – Jerry Fodor, 82, American philosopher and cognitive scientist.