2013 in philosophy

Events

• The 23rd World Congress of Philosophy was held from August 4 through August 10, 2013, in Athens, Greece.^[1] The 2013 World Congress of Philosophy is organized by the International Federation of Philosophical Societies in collaboration with the Greek Philosophical Society.
• The 200th anniversary of Søren Kierkegaard's birth was celebrated on May 5, 2013, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Conferences on Kierkegaard's philosophy and theology were held from May 6 through May 8, 2013 in Copenhagen, as well as numerous other cities throughout the world.^[2] The anniversary was organized by the International Kierkegaard Society with support from the University of Copenhagen.

Publications

• Alvin Goldman, Joint Ventures: Mindreading, Mirroring, and Embodied Cognition (Oxford University Press)
• Saul Kripke, Reference and Existence: The John Locke Lectures (Oxford University Press)
• George Pattison, Kierkegaard and the Quest for Unambiguous Life (2013)
• Dimitris Vardoulakis, Sovereignty and Its Other (2013)

Deaths

• January 13 - Diogenes Allen (born 1932)
• January 19 - Julia Penelope (born 1941)
• January 28 - Xu Liangying (born 1920)
• February 10 - David Hartman (born 1931)
• February 10 - Eugenio Trías Sagnier (born 1942)
• February 11 - Krzysztof Michalski (born 1948)
• February 14 - Ronald Dworkin^[3][4](born 1931)
• February 16 - Grigory Pomerants^[5] (born 1918)
• April 10 - Raymond Boudon (born 1934)
• May 8 - Dallas Willard (born 1935)
• July 24 - Fred Dretske (born 1932)
• December 5 - Colin Wilson (born 1931)
• December 21 - Peter Geach (born 1916)