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

Wlodek Rabinowicz (January 14)

Susan Bordo (January 24)

Peter Blokhuis (February 7)

Nanda Thein Zan (February 21)

Frank Van Dun (February 27)

Yuri Matiyasevich (March 2)

Sayyid Al-Qemany (March 13)

Subhash Kak (March 26)

Daniel M. Hausman (March 27)

Nadežda Čačinovič (April 1)

Camille Paglia (April 2)

Terence Irwin (April 21)

Timo Airaksinen (April 25)

Martha Nussbaum (May 6)

Michael Ignatieff (May 12)

Nancy Fraser (May 20)

Goran Švob (May 29)

John Ralston Saul (June 19)

Fernando Savater (June 21)

Bruno Latour (June 22)

Peter Sloterdijk (June 26)

Michael Williams (July 6)

Steven Tainer (July 26)

Jens Staubrand (August 28)

Rémi Brague (September 8)

Karen J. Warren (September 10)

Gillian Rose (September 20)

Ülo Kaevats (September 29)

Barbara Cassin (October 24)

Geydar Dzhemal (November 6)

Günter Abel (November 7)

David Gooding (November 21)

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)

Philip Kitcher (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)

Marc Sautet (unknown)

Alan Soble (unknown)

Alfred I. Tauber (unknown)

Xu Youyu (unknown)

Deaths

Pierre Janet (February 24)

Ziauddin Ahmad

George Chatterton-Hill

Morris Raphael Cohen

Ananda Coomaraswamy

Hans Cornelius

Maurice De Wulf

Max Dessoir

Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot

Marcel Foucault

Richard Hönigswald

Cassius Jackson Keyser

Pierre Lecomte du Noüy

Konstanty Michalski

Max Planck (October 4)

Harold Arthur Prichard

Léon Robin

Nicholas Roerich

Swami Vipulananda

Alfred North Whitehead (December 30)