2017 in philosophy

List of years in philosophy
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Events

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  • 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

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The following list is arranged alphabetically:

Deaths

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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

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  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)