2001 in philosophy

2001 in philosophy

Events

 * Saul Kripke was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy "for his creation of the modal-logical semantics that bear his name and for his associated original and profound investigations of identity, reference and necessity".

Publications

 * Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)
 * Alain Finkielkraut, The Internet, The Troubling Ecstasy (2001)
 * John A. Leslie, Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology (2001)
 * Mario Bunge, Philosophy in Crisis: The Need for Reconstruction (2001)

Introductory Books

 * Michael Williams, Problems Of Knowledge: A Critical Introduction to Epistemology (2001)

Deaths

 * January 5 - G. E. M. Anscombe (born 1919)
 * February 9 - Herbert A. Simon (born 1916)
 * February 24 - Claude Shannon (born 1916)
 * April 24 - Paul Thieme (born 1905)
 * May 28 - Francisco Varela (born 1946)
 * June 28 - Mortimer J. Adler (born 1902)
 * August 12 - Pierre Klossowski (born 1905)
 * September 30 - John C. Lilly (born 1915)
 * October 14 - David Lewis (born 1941)
 * December 20 - Léopold Sédar Senghor (born 1906)