Overview of the events of 2015 in philosophy
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2015 in philosophy
Publications
- Peter Carruthers, The Centered Mind: What the Science of Working Memory Shows Us About the Nature of Human Thought (Oxford University Press).
- Noam Chomsky - What Kind of Creatures Are We?
- Michel Foucault - About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980
- Byung-Chul Han - The Burnout Society
- Byung-Chul Han - The Transparency Society
- John Marenbon – Pagans and Philosophers: The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz
- Michel Onfray – Cosmos. Une ontologie matérialiste
- Michael Shermer - The Moral Arc
Deaths
- February 1 – Irving Singer, US academic and author, 89
- March 1 – Georg Kreisel, Austrian-born mathematical logician, 91
- May 9 – Odo Marquard, German philosopher, 87
- May 27 – Michael Martin, US philosopher and academic, 83
- August 8 – Abner Shimony, US physicist and philosopher of science, 87
- August 12 – Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician, 86
- December 13 – Benedict Anderson, social historian, cultural critic, Asian studies scholar, writer (Imagined Communities).
References
- Steven Pinker (16 Jan 2015). "Like Minds: Stephen Pinker Reviews "The Moral Arc"". omnivoracious.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24.
- "Universität Gießen trauert um Prof. Odo Marquard" [University of Giessen mourns the loss of Prof. Odo Marquard]. uni-giessen.de (in German). University of Giessen. 2015-05-11. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
- "Michael Martin". Boston University. Archived from the original on 2010-03-26. Retrieved 2007-05-25.; "Michael Martin". Secular Web Kiosk and Bookstore. Retrieved 2007-05-25.
- Asian scholar Benedict Anderson dies in his sleep in Indonesia Archived 2015-12-17 at the Wayback Machine