2001 in philosophy explained

2001 in philosophy

Events

Saul Kripke was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy "for his creation of the modal-logical semantics that bear his name and for his associated original and profound investigations of identity, reference and necessity".^[1]

Publications

Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)
Alain Finkielkraut, The Internet, The Troubling Ecstasy (2001)
John A. Leslie, (2001)
Mario Bunge, (2001)

Introductory Books

Michael Williams, (2001)

Deaths

January 5 - G. E. M. Anscombe (born 1919)
February 9 - Herbert A. Simon (born 1916)^[2]
February 24 - Claude Shannon (born 1916)
April 24 - Paul Thieme (born 1905)
May 28 - Francisco Varela (born 1946)
June 28 - Mortimer J. Adler (born 1902)
August 12 - Pierre Klossowski (born 1905)
September 30 - John C. Lilly (born 1915)
October 14 - David Lewis (born 1941)
December 20 - Léopold Sédar Senghor (born 1906)

Notes and References

Web site: Saul A Kripke. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 13 January 2013.
Herbert A. Simon, 1916-2001 . Edward Feigenbaum . 2001 . Science . 291 . 5511 . 2107 . 10.1126/science.1060171 . 180480666 . Edward Feigenbaum .