August – Kialo is founded, a website for collaborative argument maps for a large variety of subjects including many philosophical questions and issues where different philosophical perspectives and claims are integrated into and scrutinized in one structure.[1][2]
Kialo debate tree schema with an example path through it for thesis "Morality is objective"[3]
Michael Ruse, On Purpose, (Princeton University Press).
Kieran Setiya, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide, (Princeton University Press)
George Sher, Me, You, Us (Oxford University Press)
Peter Singer, (ed.), Does Anything Really Matter? Essays on Parfit on Objectivity (Oxford University Press).
Jeremy Waldron, One Another's Equals: The Basis of Human Equality (Harvard University Press)
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in philosophy" article:
January 1 – Derek Parfit, 75, British philosopher, specialist in personal identity, rationality, and ethics (born 1942).
January 7 – John Deely, 74, American philosopher and semiotician (born 1942)
January 9 – Zygmunt Bauman, 91, Polish sociologist and philosopher (born 1925).
January 13 – Mark Fisher, 48, British writer, music journalist (The Wire, Fact) and cultural theorist whose most influential work is Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative? (2009) (born 1968).
February 1 – Tzvetan Todorov, 77, Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist, essayist and geologist (born 1939).
February 17 – Tom Regan, 78, American philosopher, specialist in animal rights theory (born 1938).
