2007 in philosophy
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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.{{cite news|last=Turner|first=Chris|title=André Gorz - French philosopher who pioneered ideas of political ecology|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/nov/07/guardianobituaries.obituaries|access-date=23 January 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|date=7 November 2007}} 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."{{cite news|title=French philosopher commits suicide with wife |url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gjWhcNZrlESesEMdHb_hDiVUXltQ |access-date=23 January 2013 |newspaper=Agence France-Presse |date=24 September 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130703014627/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gjWhcNZrlESesEMdHb_hDiVUXltQ |archive-date=3 July 2013 }}
Publications
- Ray Brassier, "Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction" (2007)
- Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (2007)
- Owen Flanagan, The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World (2007)
- Christopher Janaway, Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy (2007)
- Richard Kraut, What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being (2007)
- John A. Leslie, Immortality Defended (2007)
- Quee Nelson, The Slightest Philosophy (2007)
- Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (2007)
- Alan Weisman, The World Without Us (2007)
= [[Philosophical literature]] =
- Ron Cooper, Hume's Fork (2007)
Deaths
- March 6 - Jean Baudrillard (born 1929)
- April 28 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (born 1912)
- June 8 - Richard Rorty (born 1931)
- August 19 - Balthazar Barbosa Filho (born 1942)
- September 22 - André Gorz (born 1923)
- October 12 - Marianne Katoppo (born 1943)