2016 in philosophy

2016 in philosophy

Events

 * Edward N. Zalta is awarded the 2016 Barwise Prize.
 * Charles Taylor wins the inaugural million-dollar Berggruen Prize for Philosophy, awarded to "a thinker whose ideas are of broad significance for shaping human self-understanding and the advancement of humanity," in a ceremony at the New York Public Library.
 * Victor Caston, Anjan Chakravartty, Daniel Garber, and Richard Kraut are awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in philosophy.
 * Christian Teichmann is presented a Hannah Arendt Award.
 * Brian Skyrms receives the Hempel Award.
 * Patrick Haggard is awarded the 2016 Jean Nicod Prize.
 * Martha Nussbaum is awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy.
 * Brian Epstein is awarded the Lakatos Award.
 * Victoria Pitts-Taylor receives the PSA Women's Caucus Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science.
 * Jonathan Sacks is awarded the Templeton Prize.
 * Jan Sokol is awarded The VIZE 97 Prize.

Publications
The following list is arranged alphabetically:


 * Louis Althusser (Author), Étienne Balibar (Introduction & Contributor), Roger Establet (Contributor), Jacques Rancière (Contributor), Pierre Macherey (Contributor) – Reading Capital: The Complete Edition
 * Jacques Derrida – Heidegger: The Question of Being and History
 * Peter Singer, One World Now: The Ethics of Globalization (Yale University Press)
 * Peter Sloterdijk, Foams: Spheres Volume III:  Plural Spherology (2016)

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in philosophy" article:
 * January 14 – Ellen Meiksins Wood, 73 (born 1942), American-born historian and political theorist.
 * February 19 – Umberto Eco, 84 (born 1932), Italian philosopher (Kant and the Platypus) and novelist (The Name of the Rose)
 * March 13 – Hilary Putnam, 89 (born 1926), American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist.