• Edward N. Zalta is awarded the 2016 Barwise Prize.
• Charles Taylor wins the inaugural million-dollar Berggruen Prize for Philosophy, awarded to "a thinker whose ideas are of broad significance for shaping human self-understanding and the advancement of humanity," in a ceremony at the New York Public Library.^[1]
• Victor Caston, Anjan Chakravartty, Daniel Garber, and Richard Kraut are awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in philosophy.
• Christian Teichmann is presented a Hannah Arendt Award.
• Brian Skyrms receives the Hempel Award.
• Patrick Haggard is awarded the 2016 Jean Nicod Prize.
• Martha Nussbaum is awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy.
• Brian Epstein is awarded the Lakatos Award.
• Victoria Pitts-Taylor receives the PSA Women's Caucus Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science.
• Jonathan Sacks is awarded the Templeton Prize.
• Jan Sokol is awarded The VIZE 97 Prize.

The following list is arranged alphabetically:

• Louis Althusser (Author), Étienne Balibar (Introduction & Contributor), Roger Establet (Contributor), Jacques Rancière (Contributor), Pierre Macherey (Contributor) – Reading Capital: The Complete Edition
• Jacques Derrida – Heidegger: The Question of Being and History
• Peter Singer, One World Now: The Ethics of Globalization (Yale University Press)
• Peter Sloterdijk, Foams: Spheres Volume III: Plural Spherology (2016)

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in philosophy" article:

• January 14 – Ellen Meiksins Wood, 73 (born 1942), American-born historian and political theorist.^[2]
• February 19 – Umberto Eco, 84 (born 1932), Italian philosopher (Kant and the Platypus) and novelist (The Name of the Rose)^[3]
• March 13 – Hilary Putnam, 89 (born 1926), American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist.