2009 in philosophy

2009 in philosophy

Publications

 * Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals (2009)
 * David Foster Wallace, This Is Water (2009)
 * Catherine H. Zuckert, Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues (2009)
 * Elijah Millgram, Hard Truths (2009)
 * Irving Singer, Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up (2009)
 * Christine Korsgaard, Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity (2009)
 * Brian Hines, Return to the One: Plotinus's Guide to God-Realization (2009)
 * Christopher S. Hill, Consciousness (2009)

Deaths

 * January 12 - Arne Næss (born 1912)
 * March 10 - Brian Barry (born 1936)
 * March 16 - Marjorie Grene (born 1910)
 * April 5 - Neil MacCormick (born 1941)
 * May 14 - Benson Mates (born 1919)
 * June 3 - Julius Moravcsik (born 1931)
 * July 1 - David Pears (born 1921)
 * July 17 - Leszek Kołakowski (born 1927)
 * August 5 - Gerald Cohen (born 1941)
 * September 13 - William Alston (born 1921)
 * October 30 - Claude Lévi-Strauss (born 1908)
 * December 4 - Stephen Toulmin (born 1922)