1962 in philosophy

1962 in philosophy

Events

 * Progressive utilization theory (PROUT) is fully outlined for the first time by Indian philosopher and spiritual leader Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar.
 * Perry Anderson takes over editorship of the New Left Review in the U.K., changing its emphasis to the theoretical.

Publications

 * Geach, Peter. Reference and Generality. Cornell University Press.
 * Kuhn, T. S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
 * Leavis, F. R. Two Cultures? The Significance of C.P. Snow, (the Richmond Lecture, with an Essay on Sir Charles Snow's Rede Lecture by Michael Yudkin), London: Chatto & Windus.
 * Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962)
 * Alfred Schmidt, The Concept of Nature in Marx (1962)
 * Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962)
 * J. L. Austin, Sense and Sensibilia (published posthumously in 1962)
 * Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)
 * Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (1962)
 * Wolfhart Pannenberg, What Is Man? (1962)

Births

 * January 17 - Nick Land
 * February 26 - Andreas Kinneging
 * April 5 - Roel Kuiper
 * April 24 - Keith DeRose, American philosopher and academic
 * April 26 - Algis Uždavinys (died 2010)
 * May 3 - Anselm Jappe
 * June 16 - Jon Oberlander
 * August 13 - Leonidas Donskis (died 2016)
 * Lewis Gordon
 * Lori Gruen
 * Will Kymlicka
 * Robin LePoidevin
 * Timothy Madigan
 * Pete Moore
 * Dominique Moulon
 * Stephen Mulhall
 * Aref Ali Nayed
 * Mark Rowlands
 * Renata Salecl
 * Sonu Shamdasani
 * Mikael Stenmark
 * Tridandi Swami
 * Evan Thompson
 * Nigel Warburton
 * Tasos Zembylas

Deaths

 * January 20 - Robinson Jeffers, 75
 * January 31 - Stefan Błachowski, 72
 * February 14 - Kurt Singer, 75
 * February 24 - Hu Shih, 70, Chinese philosopher, essayist and diplomat
 * April 19 - Jacques Chevalier, 80
 * April 29 - Hajime Tanabe
 * May 11 - Arthur Edward Murphy, 60
 * June 24 - William Mitchell (philosopher), 101
 * July 6 - John Anderson, 68, Scottish-born Australian philosopher and academic
 * July 9 - Georges Bataille, 64
 * July 25 - Anastasio Cuschieri, 90
 * October 9 - Milan Vidmar, 77
 * October 16 - Gaston Bachelard, 78
 * November 2 - George Barton Cutten, 88
 * November 18 - Niels Bohr, 77
 * December 1 - Henri Wallon (psychologist), 83
 * December 27 - Serge Raynaud de la Ferriere, 46, French religious philosopher
 * Gerardus Johannes Geers
 * Francesc Pujols
 * Francisco Romero (philosopher)