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.

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''

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.