2001 in philosophy

• Saul Kripke was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy "for his creation of the modal-logical semantics that bear his name and for his associated original and profound investigations of identity, reference and necessity".{{cite web|title=Saul A Kripke|url=http://www.kva.se/en/Prizes/Prize-winner-page/?laureateId=385|publisher=The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences|accessdate=13 January 2013}}

• Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)
• Alain Finkielkraut, The Internet, The Troubling Ecstasy (2001)
• John A. Leslie, Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology (2001)
• Mario Bunge, Philosophy in Crisis: The Need for Reconstruction (2001)

• Michael Williams, Problems Of Knowledge: A Critical Introduction to Epistemology (2001)

• January 5 - G. E. M. Anscombe (born 1919)
• February 9 - Herbert A. Simon (born 1916){{cite journal |title=Herbert A. Simon, 1916-2001 |last1=Edward Feigenbaum |date=2001 |journal=Science |volume=291 |issue=5511 |pages=2107 |doi=10.1126/science.1060171 |s2cid=180480666 |author1-link=Edward Feigenbaum }}
• February 24 - Claude Shannon (born 1916)
• April 24 - Paul Thieme (born 1905)
• May 28 - Francisco Varela (born 1946)
• June 28 - Mortimer J. Adler (born 1902)
• August 12 - Pierre Klossowski (born 1905)
• September 30 - John C. Lilly (born 1915)
• October 14 - David Lewis (born 1941)
• December 20 - Léopold Sédar Senghor (born 1906)

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