2001 in philosophy

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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".^[1]

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

• G. E. M. Anscombe (January 5)
• Herbert A. Simon (February 9)
• Claude Shannon (February 24)
• Paul Thieme (April 24)
• Francisco Varela (May 28)
• Mortimer J. Adler (June 28)
• Pierre Klossowski (August 12)
• John C. Lilly (September 30)
• David Lewis (October 14)
• Léopold Sédar Senghor (December 20)

References

1. "Saul A Kripke". The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 January 2013.