Philosophy: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)
• Jean-Paul Sartre, What Is Literature? (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 30 - Alfred North Whitehead (born 1861)
• Maurice De Wulf
• Marcel Foucault
• Konstanty Michalski
• Harold Arthur Prichard