2015 in philosophy

Publications Peter Carruthers, The Centered Mind: What the Science of Working Memory Shows Us About the Nature of Human Thought (Oxford University Press). Noam Chomsky - What Kind of Creatures Are We? Michel Foucault - About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980 Byung-Chul Han - The Burnout Society Byung-Chul Han - The Transparency Society John Marenbon – Pagans and Philosophers: The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz Michel Onfray – Cosmos. Une ontologie matérialiste Michael Shermer - The Moral Arc

Deaths February 1 – Irving Singer, US academic and author, 89 March 1 – Georg Kreisel, Austrian-born mathematical logician, 91 May 9 – Odo Marquard, German philosopher, 87 May 27 – Michael Martin, US philosopher and academic, 83; August 8 – Abner Shimony, US physicist and philosopher of science, 87 August 12 – Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician, 86 December 13 – Benedict Anderson, social historian, cultural critic, Asian studies scholar, writer (Imagined Communities).Asian scholar Benedict Anderson dies in his sleep in Indonesia

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