2018 in philosophy

2018 in philosophy

Events

• Gualtiero Piccinini is awarded the 2018 Barwise Prize.
• Martha Nussbaum is awarded the Berggruen Prize for her work which "shows how philosophy, far from being merely an armchair discipline, offers a greater understanding of who we are, our place in the world, and a way to live a well-lived life."^[1]
• Lisa Shapiro is awarded the Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize.
• Sally Haslanger and John Heil are awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in philosophy.
• Ann Pettifor is presented a Hannah Arendt Award.
• Michael Stolleis receives a Hegel Prize.
• Nancy Cartwright receives the Hempel Award.
• Sabina Leonelli is awarded the Lakatos Award.
• Gillian Barker receives the PSA Women's Caucus Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science.
• Saharon Shelah is awarded the 2018 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy.
• Margarethe von Trotta is awarded the Theodor W. Adorno Award.

Publications

Publications:

• February 8 - Michel Foucault, Histoire de la sexualité, IV : Les aveux de la chair (Gallimard)
• February 19 – Tommie Shelby & Brandon Terry (ed.), To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Harvard University Press)
• February 22 - Robert L. Holmes, Introduction to Applied Ethics (Bloomsbury)
• March 4 – T. M. Scanlon, Why Does Inequality Matter? (Oxford University Press)
• May 22 - Errol Morris, The Ashtray (Or the Man Who Denied Reality)
• July 17 - Eugene Thacker, Infinite Resignation: On Pessimism (Repeater)

Deaths

• July 5 - Claude Lanzmann, French philosopher and documentary filmmaker (b. 1925)
• October 10 - Mary Midgley, British moral philosopher (b. 1919)^[2]
• October 13 - Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, Cameroonian philosopher (b. 1934)^[3]
• October 27 - Denis Miéville, Swiss mathematician and expert on the logic of Stanislaw Lesniewski and natural logic (b. 1946)^[4]
• November 2 - Herbert Fingarette, American philosopher (b. 1921)^[5]
• November 4 – Bertil Mårtensson, Swedish academic philosopher and writer of crime, fantasy and science fiction (b. 1945)^[6]
• November 15 – Adolf Grünbaum, German-American philosopher of science and a critic of psychoanalysis, as well as Karl Popper's philosophy of science (b. 1923)^[7]
• December 23 – Sophie Oluwole, Nigerian philosopher (b. 1936)^[8][9]
• December 25 – Isaac Levi, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Columbia University (b. 1930)^[10]