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2009 in philosophy was an interesting year, with some significant publications by, and deaths of, philosophers.

Contents

• Events
• Publications
• Deaths
• References

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)

References