1942 in philosophy

1942 in philosophy

Events

 * American Society for Aesthetics was founded in 1942.

Publications

 * C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (1942)
 * Stephen Pepper, World Hypotheses (1942)

Philosophical literature

 * Albert Camus, The Stranger (1942)

Births

 * January 24 - Melvin Fitting, American logician
 * February 24 - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
 * March 28 - Daniel Dennett
 * April 12 - Ellen Meiksins Wood (died 2016)
 * April 22 - Giorgio Agamben
 * April 26 - John Deely
 * October 21 - Paul Churchland
 * December 11 Derek Parfit (died 2017)
 * John McDowell (unspecified) (born 1942)

Deaths

 * February 22 - Stefan Zweig (born 1881)
 * April 15 - Robert Musil (born 1880)
 * December 21 - Franz Boas (born 1858)