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.^[1] 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."^[2]

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)