2009 in philosophy was an interesting year, with some significant publications by, and deaths of, philosophers.
Events
Publications Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals (2009) David Foster Wallace, This Is Water (2009) Catherine H. Zuckert, Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues (2009) Elijah Millgram, Hard Truths (2009) Irving Singer, Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up (2009) Christine Korsgaard, Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity (2009) Brian Hines, Return to the One: Plotinus's Guide to God-Realization (2009) Christopher S. Hill, Consciousness (2009)
Deaths January 12 - Arne Næss (born 1912) March 10 - Brian Barry (born 1936) March 16 - Marjorie Grene (born 1910) April 5 - Neil MacCormick (born 1941) May 14 - Benson Mates (born 1919) June 3 - Julius Moravcsik (born 1931) July 1 - David Pears (born 1921) July 17 - Leszek Kołakowski (born 1927) August 5 - Gerald Cohen (born 1941) September 13 - William Alston (born 1921) October 30 - Claude Lévi-Strauss (born 1908) December 4 - Stephen Toulmin (born 1922)
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