2017 in philosophy
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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.{{cite news |last1=Margolis |first1=Jonathan |title=Meet the start-up that wants to sell you civilised debate |url=https://www.ft.com/content/4c19005c-ff5f-11e7-9e12-af73e8db3c71 |access-date=9 June 2023 |work=Financial Times |date=24 January 2018}}{{cite news |title=How to Promote Enlightened Debate Online |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-promote-enlightened-debate-online/ |access-date=9 June 2023 |work=The Chronicle of Higher Education |date=25 March 2018 |first1=Audrey Williams |last1=June|language=en}}
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- October 2 - Robert L. Holmes delivers his lecture "The Significance of Violence in Today's World" at the United Nations International Day of Nonviolence.[https://www.robert-holmes.com/speeches Robert L. Holmes: Partial List of Talks 2000-Present on robert=holmes.com]
- 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.{{Cite news |title=Onora O'Neill Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy |author=Jennifer Schuessler |date=October 3, 2017 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/arts/onora-oneill-berggruen-prize.html |newspaper=The New York Times}}
- 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.
Publications
The following list is arranged alphabetically:
- Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek & Peter Singer, Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press)
- Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (Oxford University Press)
- Michael Ruse, On Purpose, (Princeton University Press).
- Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide, (Princeton University Press)
- George Sher, Me, You, Us (Oxford University Press)
- Peter Singer, (ed.), Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity (Oxford University Press).
- Jeremy Waldron, One Another's Equals: The Basis of Human Equality (Harvard University Press)
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in philosophy" article:
- January 1 – Derek Parfit, 75, British philosopher, specialist in personal identity, rationality, and ethics (born 1942).
- January 7 – John Deely, 74, American philosopher and semiotician (born 1942)
- January 9 – Zygmunt Bauman, 91, Polish sociologist and philosopher (born 1925).
- January 13 – Mark Fisher, 48, British writer, music journalist (The Wire, Fact) and cultural theorist whose most influential work is Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? (2009) (born 1968).
- February 1 – Tzvetan Todorov, 77, Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist, essayist and geologist (born 1939).
- February 17 – Tom Regan, 78, American philosopher, specialist in animal rights theory (born 1938).
- March 14 – André Tosel, 75, French Marxist philosopher (born 1941).[http://www.nicematin.com/vie-locale/andre-tosel-philosophe-nicois-de-renom-nous-a-quittes-121427 André Tosel, philosophe niçois de renom, nous a quittés.] {{in lang|fr}}
- April 22 – Hubert Dreyfus, 87, American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley (born 1929).
- April 24 – Robert M. Pirsig, 88, American writer and philosopher (born 1928).
- May 15 – Karl-Otto Apel, 95, German philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Frankfurt am Main (born 1922).
- October 1 – István Mészáros, 86, Hungarian-born Marxist philosopher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex (born 1930).
- November 29 – Jerry Fodor, 82, American philosopher and cognitive scientist (born 1935).