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]

• 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.^[4]
• 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).^[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).

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