1889 in philosophy

Births

 * January 1 - Götz Briefs (died 1974)
 * February 8 - Fritz Heinemann (died 1970)
 * February 22 - R. G. Collingwood (died 1943)
 * March 1 - Tetsuro Watsuji (died 1960)
 * April 14 - Arnold J. Toynbee (died 1975)
 * April 26 - Ludwig Wittgenstein (died 1951)
 * June 1 - Charles Kay Ogden (died 1957)
 * July 26 - Tadeusz Czeżowski (died 1981)
 * September 4 - Moses Schönfinkel (died 1942)
 * September 5 - Oskar Becker (died 1964)
 * September 26 - Martin Heidegger (died 1976)
 * October 12 - Erich Przywara (died 1972)
 * October 12 - Dietrich von Hildebrand (died 1977)
 * December 4 - Xavier Zubiri (died 1983)
 * December 7 - Gabriel Marcel (died 1973)

Deaths

 * October 17 - Nikolay Chernyshevsky (born 1828)
 * December 23 - Constance Naden (born 1858)