List of years 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.[1][2]
Kialo debate tree schema with an example path through it for thesis "Morality is objective"[3]

Publications

The following list is arranged alphabetically:

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).[5]
  • 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).

References

  1. Margolis, Jonathan (January 24, 2018). "Meet the start-up that wants to sell you civilised debate". Financial Times. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
  2. June, Audrey Williams (March 25, 2018). "How to Promote Enlightened Debate Online". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
  3. Bolton, Eric; Calderwood, Alex; Christensen, Niles; Kafrouni, Jerome; Drori, Iddo (2020). "High Quality Real-Time Structured Debate Generation". arXiv:2012.00209 [cs.CL].
  4. Jennifer Schuessler (October 3, 2017). "Onora O'Neill Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy". The New York Times.
  5. André Tosel, philosophe niçois de renom, nous a quittés. (in French)
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