2019 in philosophy

Events

• Jonathan Lear and Judith Jarvis Thomson are elected to the American Philosophical Society at its spring 2019 meeting.
• Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek debate: Happiness: communism vs capitalism.

  Publications

• A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology, Robert Brandom.
• Saving People from the Harm of Death, edited by Espen Gamlund, Carl Tollef Solberg, and foreword by Jeff McMahan.
• Dimensions of Normativity: New Essays on Metaethics and Jurisprudence, edited by David Plunkett, Scott J. Shapiro, and Kevin Toh.
• The Fifth Corner of Four: An Essay on Buddhist Metaphysics and the Catuskoti, Graham Priest.
• The World Philosophy Made: From Plato to the Digital Age, Scott Soames.
• Measuring Social Welfare: An Introduction, Matthew Adler.
• The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal, Martha Nussbaum.
• How Change Happens, Cass Sunstein.

  Deaths

• January 12 – Takeshi Umehara, Japanese philosopher
• January 18 – Gary Gutting, American philosopher
• January 18 – Etienne Vermeersch, Belgian philosopher
• July 7 – James D. Wallace, philosopher at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, father of author David Foster Wallace.
• July 11 – John Gardner, legal philosopher at Oxford University.
• July 16 – Daniel Callahan, American philosopher, bioethicist, and co-founder of The Hastings Center.
• July 19 – Ágnes Heller, Hungarian philosopher who was part of the Budapest School.
• July 26 – Bryan Magee, British popularizer of philosophy.
• 9 August – Barry Stroud, Canadian philosopher known for his work on philosophical skepticism, David Hume, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
• 18 September – Richard Watson, American philosopher known for his work on Descartes.
• 20 September – Myles Burnyeat, English philosopher specializing in ancient philosophy.
• 14 October – Karola Stotz, German philosopher specializing in philosophy of science.
• 17 October – Horace Romano Harré, British philosophy known for his work in philosophy of science and philosophy of psychology.
• 21 October – Michael Detlefsen, American philosopher who specialized in logic and philosophy of mathematics, spending most of his career at the University of Notre Dame.
• 21 November – James Griffin, American-born philosopher who spent much of his career at Oxford, specializing in ethics and value theory.
• 27 November – Jaegwon Kim, American philosopher who specialized in philosophy of mind and metaphysics.
• 2 December – Kenneth Allen Taylor, American philosopher who specialized in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.
• 23 December – Brian McGuinness, British philosopher.