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2016 in philosophy

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2016 in philosophy

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Events

  • Charles Taylor wins the inaugural million-dollar Berggruen Prize for Philosophy, awarded to "a thinker whose ideas are of broad significance for shaping human self-understanding and the advancement of humanity," in a ceremony at the New York Public Library.

    • Publications

    The following list is arranged alphabetically:

  • Louis Althusser (Author), Étienne Balibar (Introduction & Contributor), Roger Establet (Contributor), Jacques Rancière (Contributor), Pierre Macherey (Contributor) – Reading Capital: The Complete Edition
  • Jacques Derrida – Heidegger: The Question of Being and History
  • Peter Sloterdijk, Foams: Spheres Volume III: Plural Spherology (2016)

    • Deaths

    Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in philosophy" article:

  • January 14 – Ellen Meiksins Wood, 73 (born 1942), American-born historian and political theorist.
  • February 19 – Umberto Eco, 84 (born 1932), Italian philosopher (Kant and the Platypus) and novelist (The Name of the Rose)
  • March 13 – Hilary Putnam, 89 (born 1926), American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist.

    • References

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