2017 in philosophy

Events

• Onora O'Neill wins the 2017 Berggruen Prize.
• 15-16 December – a conference in memory of Derek Parfit is held at Rutgers University, organized jointly with New York University.
• Hypatia transracialism controversy

  Publications

• Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek & Peter Singer, Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction
• Kate Manne,
• Michael Ruse, On Purpose,.
• Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide,
• George Sher, Me, You, Us
• Peter Singer,, Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity.
• Jeremy Waldron, One Another's Equals: The Basis of Human Equality

  Deaths

• January 1 - Derek Parfit, 75, British philosopher, specialist in personal identity, rationality, and ethics.
• January 7 - John Deely, 74, American philosopher and semiotician
• January 9 - Zygmunt Bauman, 91, Polish sociologist and philosopher.
• January 13 - Mark Fisher, 48, British writer, music journalist and cultural theorist whose most influential work is Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? .
• February 1 - Tzvetan Todorov, 77, Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist, essayist and geologist.
• February 17 - Tom Regan, 78, American philosopher, specialist in animal rights theory.
• March 14 - André Tosel, 75, French Marxist philosopher.
• April 22 - Hubert Dreyfus, 87, American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.
• April 24 - Robert M. Pirsig, 88, American writer and philosopher.
• May 15 - Karl-Otto Apel, 95, German philosopher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Frankfurt am Main.
• October 1 - István Mészáros, 86, Hungarian-born Marxist philosopher, Professor Emeritus at the University of Sussex.
• November 29 - Jerry Fodor, 82, American philosopher and cognitive scientist.