Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for being "a critical theorist and educator speaking for the humanities against intellectual colonialism in relation to the globalized world".
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize.
Austin L. Hughes, The Folly of Scientism (2012)
Christine Overall, Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate (2012)
Ronald W. Dworkin, Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Happiness (2012)
Frank Cioffi (January 1)
Arild Haaland (January 24)
J. O. Urmson (January 29)
John Hick (February 9)
Ruth Barcan Marcus (February 19)
Frits Staal (February 19)
Peter Serracino Inglott (March 16)
Knut Erik Tranøy (March 19)
Boris Parygin (April 9)
Arturo Andrés Roig (April 30)
Jean Laplanche (May 6)
Peter Koslowski (May 15)
Berthold Wulf (June 11)
Roger Garaudy (June 13)
Juha Sihvola (June 14)
Alan Saunders (June 15)
Hugo Adam Bedau (August 13)
Claude Sumner (June 24)
Robert Kurz (July 18)
Leonard Linsky (August 27)
Alfred Schmidt (August 28)
Ray Billington (September 1)
Paul Pojman (September 20)
Yehuda Elkana (September 21)
J. J. C. Smart (October 6)
Piotr Lenartowicz (October 10)
Mark Poster (October 10)
Tomonubu Imamichi (October 13)
Paul Kurtz (October 20)
Annette Baier (November 2)
David Favrholdt (December 6)
Henri Bortoft (December 29)
Shunpei Ueyama (unspecified)
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