2018 in philosophy

Events

• Sally Haslanger and John Heil are awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in philosophy
• Martha Nussbaum is awarded the Berggruen Prize for her work which "shows how philosophy, far from being merely an armchair discipline, offers a greater understanding of who we are, our place in the world, and a way to live a well-lived life."

  Publications

• February 8 - Michel Foucault, Histoire de la sexualité, IV : Les aveux de la chair
• February 19 – Tommie Shelby & Brandon Terry, To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• March 4 – T. M. Scanlon, Why Does Inequality Matter?
• May 22 - Errol Morris, The Ashtray
• July 17 - Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation: On Pessimism

  Deaths

• July 5 - Claude Lanzmann, French philosopher and documentary filmmaker
• October 10 - Mary Midgley, British moral philosopher
• October 13 - Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, Cameroonian philosopher
• October 27 - Denis Miéville, Swiss mathematician and expert on the logic of Stanislaw Lesniewski and natural logic
• November 2 - Herbert Fingarette, American philosopher
• November 4 – Bertil Mårtensson, Swedish academic philosopher and writer of crime, fantasy and science fiction
• November 15 – Adolf Grünbaum, German-American philosopher of science and a critic of psychoanalysis, as well as Karl Popper's philosophy of science
• December 23 – Sophie Oluwole, Nigerian philosopher
• December 25 – Isaac Levi, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Columbia University