2012 in philosophy
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2012 in philosophy
Events
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for being "a critical theorist and educator speaking for the humanities against intellectual colonialism in relation to the globalized world".{{cite web|title=The 2012 Kyoto Prize Laureate|url=http://www.kyotoprize.org/2012/en/28k-laureates-c.html|publisher=Inamori Foundation|accessdate=12 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304225020/http://www.kyotoprize.org/2012/en/28k-laureates-c.html|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
- Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize.{{cite web|title=Sigmund-Freud-Preis|url=http://www.deutscheakademie.de/preise_freud.html|publisher=Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung|accessdate=9 January 2013|archive-date=14 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514044609/http://www.deutscheakademie.de/preise_freud.html|url-status=dead}}
Publications
- Austin L. Hughes, The Folly of Scientism{{cite web|last=Hughes|first=Austin|title=The Folly of Scientism|url=http://www.thenewatlantis.com/docLib/20121116_TNA37Hughes.pdf|publisher=The New Atlantis - A Journal of Technology & Society|accessdate=19 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121224003842/http://www.thenewatlantis.com/docLib/20121116_TNA37Hughes.pdf|archive-date=24 December 2012|url-status=dead}} (2012)
- Christine Overall, Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate (2012)
- Ronald W. Dworkin, Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Happiness{{cite journal|last=Dworkin|first=Ronald W.|title=Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Happiness|journal=The New Atlantis|year=2012|series=Number 35|pages=69–83|url=http://www.thenewatlantis.com/docLib/20120611_TNA35Dworkin.pdf|accessdate=19 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106220739/http://www.thenewatlantis.com/docLib/20120611_TNA35Dworkin.pdf|archive-date=6 November 2012|url-status=dead}} (2012)
Deaths
- January 1 - Frank Cioffi{{cite news|last=Vitello|first=Paul|title=Frank Cioffi, Philosopher and Critic of Freud, Dies at 83|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/books/frank-cioffi-philosopher-and-critic-of-freud-dies-at-83.html?_r=0|accessdate=7 January 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1 February 2012}} (born 1928)
- January 24 - Arild Haaland (born 1919)
- January 29 - J. O. Urmson (born 1915)
- February 9 - John Hick (born 1922)
- February 19 - Ruth Barcan Marcus{{cite news|last=Fox|first=Margalit|title=Ruth Barcan Marcus, Philosopher-Logician, Dies at 90|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/us/ruth-barcan-marcus-philosopher-logician-dies-at-90.html|accessdate=7 January 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=13 March 2012}} (born 1921)
- February 19 - Frits Staal (born 1930)
- March 16 - Peter Serracino Inglott (born 1936)
- March 19 - Knut Erik Tranøy (born 1918)
- April 9 - Boris Parygin (born 1930)
- April 30 - Arturo Andrés Roig (born 1922)
- May 6 - Jean Laplanche (born 1924)
- May 15 - Peter Koslowski (born 1952)
- June 11 - Berthold Wulf (born 1926)
- June 13 - Roger Garaudy (born 1913)
- June 14 - Juha Sihvola (born 1957)
- June 15 - Alan Saunders (born 1954)
- August 13 - Hugo Adam Bedau{{cite news|last=Yardley|first=William|title=Hugo Bedau, Philosopher Who Opposed Death Penalty, Dies at 85|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/us/hugo-bedau-philosopher-who-opposed-death-penalty-dies-at-85.html?_r=1|accessdate=7 January 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=16 August 2012}} (born 1926)
- June 24 - Claude Sumner (born 1919)
- July 18 - Robert Kurz (born 1943)
- August 27 - Leonard Linsky (born 1922)
- August 28 - Alfred Schmidt (born 1931)
- September 1 Ray Billington{{cite news|last=O'Grady|first=Jane|title=Ray Billington obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/sep/28/ray-billington?CMP=twt_gu|work=28 September 2012|publisher=The Guardian|accessdate=28 February 2013|location=London|date=September 28, 2012}}
- September 20 - Paul Pojman (born 1966)
- September 21 - Yehuda Elkana (born 1934)
- October 6 - J. J. C. Smart (born 1920)
- October 10 - Piotr Lenartowicz (born 1934)
- October 10 - Mark Poster (born 1941)
- October 13 - Tomonobu Imamichi (born 1922)
- October 20 - Paul Kurtz{{cite news|last=Weber|first=Bruce|title=Paul Kurtz, 86, Humanist Publisher, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/nyregion/paul-kurtz-humanist-and-philosopher-dead-at-86.html|accessdate=7 January 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=23 October 2012}}{{cite news|last=Oppenheimer|first=Mark|title=Closer Look at Rift Between Humanists Reveals Deeper Divisions|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/us/02beliefs.html|accessdate=7 January 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1 October 2010}} (born 1925)
- November 2 - Annette Baier (born 1929)
- December 6 - David Favrholdt (born 1931)
- December 29 - Henri Bortoft (born 1938)
- unspecified - Shunpei Ueyama (born 1921)