2001 in philosophy
Events 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".
Publications 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)
Introductory Books Michael Williams, Problems Of Knowledge: A Critical Introduction to Epistemology (2001)
Deaths January 5 - G. E. M. Anscombe (born 1919) February 9 - Herbert A. Simon (born 1916) February 24 - Claude Shannon (born 1916) April 24 - Paul Thieme (born 1905) May 28 - Francisco Varela (born 1946) June 28 - Mortimer J. Adler (born 1902) August 12 - Pierre Klossowski (born 1905) September 30 - John C. Lilly (born 1915) October 14 - David Lewis (born 1941) December 20 - Léopold Sédar Senghor (born 1906)
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