1926 in philosophy

1926 in philosophy

Publications

 * Jan Smuts, Holism and Evolution (1926) [Note: The term holism was coined by the author.]
 * Nicolai Hartmann, Ethik (1926)
 * Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy (1926)
 * Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, The Hindu View of Life (1926)

Births

 * January 3 - Robert Misrahi (died 2023)
 * January 4 - Marcus George Singer (died 2016)
 * January 14 - Peter Winch, British philosopher of social science (died 1997)
 * January 17 - Shizuteru Ueda, Japanese philosopher of religion (died 2019)
 * February 1 - Leonardo Polo (died 2013)
 * April 6 - Edward Grant (died 2020)
 * April 9 - John E. Thomas (died 1996)
 * April 29 - Renford Bambrough (died 1999)
 * June 6 - José María Valverde (died 1996)
 * June 25 - Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973)
 * June 26 - Karel Kosík (died 2003)
 * July 8 - David Malet Armstrong (died 2014)
 * July 31 - Hilary Putnam (died 2016)
 * August 2 - Herbert McCabe (died 2001)
 * August 7 - Arthur Chute McGill, Canadian-born American theologian and philosopher (died 1980)
 * August 12 (probable) - Jamal Khwaja, Indian philosopher (died 2020)
 * August 18 - Herbert Thomas Mandl (died 2007)
 * August 21 - Erwin Marquit (died 2015)
 * September 1 - Stanley Cavell (died 2018)
 * September 23 - Hugo Adam Bedau (died 2012)
 * September 24 - Louis H. Mackey (died 2004)
 * October 15 - Michel Foucault (died 1984)
 * October 29 - Joel Feinberg (died 2004)
 * September 4 - George Dickie (died 2020)
 * September 4 - Ivan Illich (died 2002)
 * October 9 - Hans Skjervheim (died 1999)
 * December 13 - Truman G. Madsen (died 2009)
 * December 25 - Eugene Gendlin, Austrian-born American philosopher (died 2017)
 * date unknown
 * Abdoldjavad Falaturi, German scholar of Iranian origin (died 1996)
 * William Alvin Howard
 * Kai Nielsen, Canadian philosopher (died 2021)
 * Hartley Rogers, Jr., mathematician working in recursion theory (died 2015)

Deaths

 * March 7 - Carl Nicolai Starcke (born 1858)
 * April 17 - Anna Willess Williams (born 1852)
 * June 21 - Paul Souriau (born 1852)
 * September 15 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken (born 1846)
 * December 23 - Swami Shraddhanand (born 1856)