Overview of the events of 2007 in philosophy
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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. 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."
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)
References
- Turner, Chris (7 November 2007). "André Gorz - French philosopher who pioneered ideas of political ecology". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
- "French philosopher commits suicide with wife". Agence France-Presse. 24 September 2007. Archived from the original on 3 July 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2013.