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.
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
Justin Leiber (July 8)
Robert Nozick (November 16)
William Stern (March 27)
Edmund Husserl (April 26)