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".
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)
Michael Williams, Problems Of Knowledge: A Critical Introduction to Epistemology (2001)
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)
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