2015 in philosophy
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2015 in philosophy
Publications
- Peter Carruthers, The Centered Mind: What the Science of Working Memory Shows Us About the Nature of Human Thought (Oxford University Press).
- Noam Chomsky - What Kind of Creatures Are We?
- Michel Foucault - About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980
- Byung-Chul Han - The Burnout Society
- Byung-Chul Han - The Transparency Society
- John Marenbon – Pagans and Philosophers: The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz
- Michel Onfray – Cosmos. Une ontologie matérialiste
- Michael Shermer - The Moral Arc{{cite web|url=http://www.omnivoracious.com/2015/01/like-minds-stephen-pinker-reviews-moral-arc.html |title=Like Minds: Stephen Pinker Reviews "The Moral Arc" |author=Steven Pinker |date=16 Jan 2015 |work=omnivoracious.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924060226/http://www.omnivoracious.com/2015/01/like-minds-stephen-pinker-reviews-moral-arc.html |archivedate=2015-09-24 }}
Deaths
- February 1 – Irving Singer, US academic and author, 89
- March 1 – Georg Kreisel, Austrian-born mathematical logician, 91
- May 9 – Odo Marquard, German philosopher, 87{{cite web |publisher=University of Giessen |date=2015-05-11 |url=http://www.uni-giessen.de/cms/ueber-uns/pressestelle/pm/pm77-15 |title=Universität Gießen trauert um Prof. Odo Marquard |trans-title=University of Giessen mourns the loss of Prof. Odo Marquard |work=uni-giessen.de |language=German |accessdate=2020-06-21 }}
- May 27 – Michael Martin, US philosopher and academic, 83{{cite web |url=http://www.bu.edu/philo/faculty/martin.html |accessdate=2007-05-25 |title=Michael Martin |publisher=Boston University |archive-date=2010-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100326074835/http://www.bu.edu/philo/faculty/martin.html |url-status=dead }}; {{cite web |url=http://www.secweb.org/index.aspx?action=viewAuthor&id=38 |accessdate=2007-05-25 |title=Michael Martin |publisher=Secular Web Kiosk and Bookstore }}{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- August 8 – Abner Shimony, US physicist and philosopher of science, 87
- August 12 – Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician, 86
- December 13 – Benedict Anderson, social historian, cultural critic, Asian studies scholar, writer (Imagined Communities).[http://www.interaksyon.com/article/121382/asian-scholar-benedict-anderson-dies-in-his-sleep-in-indonesia Asian scholar Benedict Anderson dies in his sleep in Indonesia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151217082245/http://www.interaksyon.com/article/121382/asian-scholar-benedict-anderson-dies-in-his-sleep-in-indonesia |date=2015-12-17 }}