1938 in philosophy

These are the following events that have transpired during 1938 concerning the realm or topic of philosophy:

Events
September 2 – B. F. Skinner's ground-breaking book The Behavior of Organisms was first published. Of the 800 copies in the first printing, only 548 had been sold by 1946.

Publications

 * John Dewey, Logic: The Theory of Inquiry and Experience and Education
 * Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens
 * Bertrand Russell, Power: A New Social Analysis
 * Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld, The Evolution of Physics
 * Karl Jaspers, Philosophy of Existence
 * Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities
 * Henri de Lubac, Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man
 * Charles W. Morris, Foundations of the Theory of Signs
 * Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (novel)
 * Alan Turing, Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals
 * Jean Wahl, Kierkegaardian Studies

Births

 * April 11 - Muhammad Shahrur, Syrian thinker and author (died 2019)
 * July 8 - Justin Leiber (died 2016)
 * July 10 - David Hugh Mellor, English philosopher (died 2020)
 * August 3 - Remo Bodei (died 2019)
 * November 16 - Robert Nozick (died 2002)

Deaths

 * March 27 - William Stern (born 1871)
 * April 26 - Edmund Husserl (born 1859)