2017 in philosophy

Events

Publications

The following list is arranged alphabetically:

Deaths

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).[2]
  • 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).

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