2019 in philosophy
Events
- Jonathan Lear and Judith Jarvis Thomson are elected to the American Philosophical Society at its spring 2019 meeting.[1]
- Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek debate: Happiness: communism vs capitalism.[2]
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
Etienne Vermeersch died in January.
- January 12 – Takeshi Umehara, Japanese philosopher (b. 1925)[3]
- January 18 – Gary Gutting, American philosopher (b. 1942)[4]
- January 18 – Etienne Vermeersch, Belgian philosopher (b. 1934)[5]
- July 7 – James D. Wallace, philosopher at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, father of author David Foster Wallace.[6]
- July 11 – John Gardner, legal philosopher at Oxford University.[7][8]
- July 16 – Daniel Callahan, American philosopher, bioethicist, and co-founder of The Hastings Center (b. 1930).[9]
- July 19 – Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher who was part of the Budapest School.[10]
- July 26 – Bryan Magee, British popularizer of philosophy (b. 1930).[11]
- 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 – Kenneth Allen Taylor, American philosopher who specialized in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.
- 23 December – Brian McGuinness, British philosopher.
References
- American Philosophical Society. "APS Announces 2019 Class of New Members". Retrieved 29 May 2019.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsWndfzuOc4&t=4107s
- "Influential Japanese philosopher Takeshi Umehara dies at age 93". The Japan Times. 14 January 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- Weinberg, Justin (20 January 2019). "Gary Gutting (1942-2019) (updated)". Daily Nous. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
- Filosoof, ethicus en opiniemaker Etienne Vermeersch overleden (in Dutch)
- Obituaries. "James D. Wallace". The News-Gazette. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
- "Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Oxford's Professor of Jurisprudence".
- "Oxford Law: John Gardner 1965-2019".
- "Daniel Callahan, 88, Dies; Bioethics Pioneer Weighed 'Human Finitude'". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
- Than, Krisztina. "Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller dies at age of 90". Reuters. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
- Kavanagh, Dennis (2019-07-26). "Bryan Magee obituary". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
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