1947 in philosophy

1947 in philosophy

Publications

 * Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit (1947)
 * Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947)
 * Max Horkheimer, The Eclipse of Reason (1947)
 * P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous (1947)
 * Rudolf Carnap, Meaning and Necessity (1947)

Births

 * January 14 - Wlodek Rabinowicz
 * January 24 - Susan Bordo
 * February 7 - Peter Blokhuis
 * February 20 - Philip Kitcher
 * February 20 - Leonardo Moledo (died 2014)
 * February 21 - Nanda Thein Zan (died 2011)
 * February 22 - Frank Van Dun
 * February 25 - Marc Sautet (died 1998)
 * March 2 - Yuri Matiyasevich
 * March 13 - Sayyid Al-Qemany
 * March 26 - Subhash Kak
 * March 27 - Daniel M. Hausman
 * April 1 - Nadežda Čačinovič
 * April 2 - Camille Paglia
 * April 21 - Terence Irwin
 * April 25 - Timo Airaksinen
 * May 6 - Martha Nussbaum
 * May 12 - Michael Ignatieff
 * May 20 - Nancy Fraser
 * May 29 - Goran Švob (died 2013)
 * June 10 - Geydar Dzhemal (died 2016)
 * June 19 - John Ralston Saul
 * June 21 - Fernando Savater
 * June 22 - Bruno Latour
 * June 26 - Peter Sloterdijk
 * July 6 - Michael Williams
 * July 26 - Steven Tainer
 * August 28 - Jens Staubrand
 * September 8 - Rémi Brague
 * September 10 - Karen J. Warren
 * September 20 - Gillian Rose (died 1995)
 * September 29 - Ülo Kaevats (died 2015)
 * October 24 - Barbara Cassin
 * November 7 - Günter Abel
 * November 21 - David Gooding (died 2009)

Unspecified Birth Dates

 * Gordon Anderson (unknown)
 * Karl Ameriks (unknown)
 * Thomas Baldwin (unknown)
 * David Bell (unknown)
 * Carmine Benincasa (unknown)
 * John Broome (unknown)
 * Noël Carroll (unknown)
 * David Conway (unknown)
 * Robert T. Craig (unknown)
 * Jean Curthoys (unknown)
 * Oliver Friggieri (unknown)
 * James Heisig (unknown)
 * Bensalem Himmich (unknown, born 1948?)
 * Paul Horwich (unknown)
 * Ole Fogh Kirkeby (unknown)
 * Louise Lawler (unknown)
 * David Loy (unknown)
 * David Malament (unknown)
 * Shkelzen Maliqi (unknown)
 * Françoise Meltzer (unknown)
 * Leonardo Moledo (unknown)
 * Alun Munslow (unknown)
 * David Papineau (unknown)
 * Jean-Jacques Pelletier (unknown)
 * Mark de Bretton Platts (unknown)
 * Vince Riolo (unknown)
 * Alan Soble (unknown)
 * Alfred I. Tauber (unknown)
 * Xu Youyu (unknown)

Deaths

 * January 12 - George Chatterton-Hill (born 1883)
 * January 22 - Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (born 1888)
 * January 28 - Morris Raphael Cohen (born 1880)
 * February 24 - Pierre Janet (born 1859)
 * May 8 - Cassius Jackson Keyser (born 1862)
 * June 11 - Richard Hönigswald (born 1875)
 * July - Léon Robin (born 1866)
 * July 19 - Max Dessoir (born 1867)
 * July 20 - Swami Vipulananda (born 1892)
 * September 9 - Ananda Coomaraswamy (born 1877)
 * September 22 - Pierre Lecomte du Noüy (born 1883)
 * September 27 - Hans Cornelius (born 1863)
 * October 4 - Max Planck (born 1858)
 * December 13 - Nicholas Roerich (born 1874)
 * December 23 - Ziauddin Ahmad (born 1878)
 * December 23 - Maurice De Wulf (born 1867)
 * December 29 - Harold Arthur Prichard (burn 1871)
 * December 30 - Alfred North Whitehead (born 1861)
 * Marcel Foucault
 * Konstanty Michalski