2012 in philosophy

Events

• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for being "a critical theorist and educator speaking for the humanities against intellectual colonialism in relation to the globalized world".
• Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize.

  Publications

• Austin L. Hughes, The Folly of Scientism
• Christine Overall, Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate
• Ronald W. Dworkin, Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Happiness

  Deaths

• January 1 - Frank Cioffi
• January 24 - Arild Haaland
• January 29 - J. O. Urmson
• February 9 - John Hick
• February 19 - Ruth Barcan Marcus
• February 19 - Frits Staal
• March 16 - Peter Serracino Inglott
• March 19 - Knut Erik Tranøy
• April 9 - Boris Parygin
• April 30 - Arturo Andrés Roig
• May 6 - Jean Laplanche
• May 15 - Peter Koslowski
• June 11 - Berthold Wulf
• June 13 - Roger Garaudy
• June 14 - Juha Sihvola
• June 15 - Alan Saunders
• August 13 - Hugo Adam Bedau
• June 24 - Claude Sumner
• July 18 - Robert Kurz
• August 27 - Leonard Linsky
• August 28 - Alfred Schmidt
• September 1 Ray Billington
• September 20 - Paul Pojman
• September 21 - Yehuda Elkana
• October 6 - J. J. C. Smart
• October 10 - Piotr Lenartowicz
• October 10 - Mark Poster
• October 13 - Tomonubu Imamichi
• October 20 - Paul Kurtz
• November 2 - Annette Baier
• December 6 - David Favrholdt
• December 29 - Henri Bortoft
• unspecified - Shunpei Ueyama