1997 in philosophy

Events

• Dana Scott was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences "for his conceptually oriented logical works, especially the creation of domain theory, which has made it possible to extend Tarski's semantical paradigm to programmering languages as well as to construct models of Curry's combinatory logic and Church's calculus of lambda conversion."

  Publications

• Hans Blumenberg, Die Vollzähligkeit der Sterne
• John Searle, The Mystery of Consciousness
• Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense
• Manuel de Landa, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
• Vittorio Hösle, Morals and Politics

  [Philosophical literature]

• Adam Zagajewski, Mysticism for Beginners
• Greg Egan, Diaspora

  Deaths

• April 27 - Peter Winch
• May 2 - Paulo Freire
• September 4 - Hans Eysenck
• November 5 - Isaiah Berlin
• November 6 - Josef Pieper
• December 14 - Owen Barfield
• December 26 - Cornelius Castoriadis