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]
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).