Overview of the events of 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".
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
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)
References
- "Saul A Kripke". The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
- Edward Feigenbaum (2001). "Herbert A. Simon, 1916-2001". Science. 291 (5511): 2107. doi:10.1126/science.1060171. S2CID 180480666.