2016 in philosophy

Events

• Charles Taylor wins the inaugural million-dollar Berggruen Prize for Philosophy, awarded to "a thinker whose ideas are of broad significance for shaping human self-understanding and the advancement of humanity," in a ceremony at the New York Public Library.

  Publications

• Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Macherey – Reading Capital: The Complete Edition
• Jacques Derrida – Heidegger: The Question of Being and History
• Peter Singer, One World Now: The Ethics of Globalization
• Peter Sloterdijk,

  Deaths

• January 14 – Ellen Meiksins Wood, 73, American-born historian and political theorist.
• February 19 – Umberto Eco, 84, Italian philosopher and novelist
• March 13 – Hilary Putnam, 89, American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist.