January 28 - A debate between Bertrand Russell and Frederick Copleston on the existence of God is broadcast by the BBC in the United Kingdom.
December 26 - The first series of Reith Lectures, Bertrand Russell on Authority and the Individual, begins broadcasting by the BBC.
Erich Rothacker, Probleme der Kulturanthropologie (in German, not yet translated into English, 1948)
Arnold J. Toynbee, Civilization on Trial (1948)
Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948)
Ray Kurzweil (February 12)
Bernard-Henri Lévy (November 5)
Hans Moravec (November 30)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (January 30)
Aldo Leopold (April 21)
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