2019 in philosophy
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2019 in philosophy
Events
- Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek debate: Happiness: communism vs capitalism.{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsWndfzuOc4&t=4107s |title=Marxism: Zizek/Peterson: Official Video |via=www.youtube.com}}
- Jonathan Lear and Judith Jarvis Thomson are elected to the American Philosophical Society at its spring 2019 meeting.{{cite web |last1=American Philosophical Society |title=APS Announces 2019 Class of New Members |url=https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/aps-announces-2019-class-new-members |accessdate=29 May 2019}}
- Donald A. Brown is awarded the Avicenna Prize.
- Margaret Boden is awarded the 2019 Barwise Prize.
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg wins the 2019 Berggruen Prize.
- Ágnes Heller is awarded the 2019 Friedrich Nietzsche Prize.
- Agnes Callard, Robert B. Pippin, Henry S. Richardson, and Miriam Solomon are awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in philosophy.
- Jerome Kohn and Roger Berkowitz are presented a Hannah Arendt Award.
- Martine Nida-Rümelin is awarded the 2019 Jean Nicod Prize.
- Rudolf G. Wagner is awarded the Karl Jaspers Prize.
- Henk W. de Regt is awarded the Lakatos Award.
- Elizabeth S. Anderson receives a "Genius Grant" from the MacArthur Fellows Program.
- Thomas Macho is awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize.
Publications
- A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology, Robert Brandom (Harvard University Press, 2019).
- Saving People from the Harm of Death, edited by Espen Gamlund, Carl Tollef Solberg, and foreword by Jeff McMahan (Oxford University Press, 2019).
- Dimensions of Normativity: New Essays on Metaethics and Jurisprudence, edited by David Plunkett, Scott J. Shapiro, and Kevin Toh (Oxford University Press, 2019).
- The Fifth Corner of Four: An Essay on Buddhist Metaphysics and the Catuskoti, Graham Priest (Oxford University Press, 2019).
- The World Philosophy Made: From Plato to the Digital Age, Scott Soames (Princeton University Press, 2019).
- Measuring Social Welfare: An Introduction, Matthew Adler (Oxford University Press, 2019).
- The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal, Martha Nussbaum (Harvard University Press, 2019).
- How Change Happens, Cass Sunstein (MIT Press, 2019).
Deaths
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- January 12 – Takeshi Umehara, Japanese philosopher (born 1925){{cite news|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/01/14/national/influential-japanese-philosopher-takeshi-umehara-dies-age-93/|title=Influential Japanese philosopher Takeshi Umehara dies at age 93|work=The Japan Times|date=14 January 2019|accessdate=14 January 2019}}
- January 18 – Gary Gutting, American philosopher (born 1942){{cite news|first=Justin|last=Weinberg|url=http://dailynous.com/2019/01/20/gary-gutting-1942-2019/|title=Gary Gutting (1942–2019) (updated)|work=Daily Nous|date=20 January 2019|accessdate=20 January 2019}}
- January 18 – Etienne Vermeersch, Belgian philosopher (born 1934)[http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20190124_04128911 Filosoof, ethicus en opiniemaker Etienne Vermeersch overleden] {{in lang|nl}}
- July 7 – James D. Wallace, philosopher at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, father of author David Foster Wallace.{{cite web |last1=Obituaries |title=James D. Wallace |url=https://www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/james-d-wallace/article_9b72a066-b8d8-11e9-9488-db63c3e7e11d.html |publisher=The News-Gazette |accessdate=11 August 2019}}
- July 11 – John Gardner, legal philosopher at Oxford University.{{Cite web|url=https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2019/07/in-memoriam-john-gardner-1965-2019.html|title = Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Oxford's Professor of Jurisprudence}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/news/2019-07-12-john-gardner-1965-2019|title = Oxford Law: John Gardner 1965–2019|date = 12 July 2019}}
- July 16 – Daniel Callahan, American philosopher, bioethicist, and co-founder of The Hastings Center (born 1930).{{cite news |title=Daniel Callahan, 88, Dies; Bioethics Pioneer Weighed 'Human Finitude' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/science/daniel-callahan-dead.html |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=6 August 2019}}
- July 19 – Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher who was part of the Budapest School.{{cite news |last1=Than |first1=Krisztina |title=Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller dies at age of 90 |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-obituary-heller/hungarian-philosopher-agnes-heller-dies-at-age-of-90-idUSKCN1UE2H8 |work=Reuters |accessdate=23 July 2019}}
- July 26 – Bryan Magee, British popularizer of philosophy (born 1930).{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/jul/26/bryan-magee-obituary|title=Bryan Magee obituary|last=Kavanagh|first=Dennis|date=2019-07-26|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-07-26|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}
- 9 August – Barry Stroud, Canadian philosopher known for his work on philosophical skepticism, David Hume, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
- 18 September – Richard Watson, American philosopher known for his work on Descartes.
- 20 September – Myles Burnyeat, English philosopher specializing in ancient philosophy.
- 14 October – Karola Stotz, German philosopher specializing in philosophy of science.
- 17 October – Horace Romano Harré, British philosophy known for his work in philosophy of science and philosophy of psychology.
- 21 October – Michael Detlefsen, American philosopher who specialized in logic and philosophy of mathematics, spending most of his career at the University of Notre Dame.
- 21 November – James Griffin, American-born philosopher who spent much of his career at Oxford, specializing in ethics and value theory.
- 27 November – Jaegwon Kim, American philosopher who specialized in philosophy of mind and metaphysics.
- 2 December – Ken Taylor, American philosopher who specialized in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.
- 23 December – Brian McGuinness, British philosopher.