2015 in philosophy explained

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^[1]

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^[2]
• May 27 – Michael Martin, US philosopher and academic, 83^[3]
• 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).^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Like Minds: Stephen Pinker Reviews "The Moral Arc" . Steven Pinker . 16 Jan 2015 . omnivoracious.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924060226/http://www.omnivoracious.com/2015/01/like-minds-stephen-pinker-reviews-moral-arc.html . 2015-09-24 .
2. Web site: . 2015-05-11 . Universität Gießen trauert um Prof. Odo Marquard . University of Giessen mourns the loss of Prof. Odo Marquard . uni-giessen.de . German . 2020-06-21 .
3. Web site: Michael Martin . 2007-05-25 . . 2010-03-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100326074835/http://www.bu.edu/philo/faculty/martin.html . dead .

   Web site: Michael Martin . 2007-05-25 . Secular Web Kiosk and Bookstore .

4. http://www.interaksyon.com/article/121382/asian-scholar-benedict-anderson-dies-in-his-sleep-in-indonesia Asian scholar Benedict Anderson dies in his sleep in Indonesia