2007 in philosophy

2007 in philosophy

Events

 * The French philosopher André Gorz committed suicide together with his incurably ill wife, Dorine, on 22 September 2007 in Vosnon, France. The French news agency Agence France-Presse stated that "the couple were found by a friend side by side in their home southeast of Paris surrounded by letters written to close friends and relatives."

Publications

 * Ray Brassier, "Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction" (2007)
 * Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (2007)
 * Owen Flanagan, The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World (2007)
 * Christopher Janaway, Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy (2007)
 * Richard Kraut, What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being (2007)
 * John A. Leslie, Immortality Defended (2007)
 * Quee Nelson, The Slightest Philosophy (2007)
 * Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (2007)
 * Alan Weisman, The World Without Us (2007)

Philosophical literature

 * Ron Cooper, Hume's Fork (2007)

Deaths

 * March 6 - Jean Baudrillard (born 1929)
 * April 28 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (born 1912)
 * June 8 - Richard Rorty (born 1931)
 * August 19 - Balthazar Barbosa Filho (born 1942)
 * September 22 - André Gorz (born 1923)
 * October 12 - Marianne Katoppo (born 1943)