1926 in philosophy explained

1926 in philosophy

Events

See main article: 1926.

Publications

Jan Smuts, Holism and Evolution (1926) [Note: The term ''holism'' was coined by the author.]
Nicolai Hartmann, Ethik (1926)
Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy (1926)
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, The Hindu View of Life (1926)

Births

January 3 - Robert Misrahi (died 2023)
January 4 - Marcus George Singer (died 2016)
January 14 - Peter Winch, British philosopher of social science (died 1997)^[1]
January 17 - Shizuteru Ueda, Japanese philosopher of religion^[2] (died 2019)
February 1 - Leonardo Polo (died 2013)
April 6 - Edward Grant (died 2020)
April 9 - John E. Thomas (died 1996)
April 29 - Renford Bambrough (died 1999)
June 6 - José María Valverde (died 1996)
June 25 - Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973)
June 26 - Karel Kosík (died 2003)
July 8 - David Malet Armstrong (died 2014)
July 31 - Hilary Putnam (died 2016)
August 2 - Herbert McCabe (died 2001)
August 7 - Arthur Chute McGill, Canadian-born American theologian and philosopher (died 1980)
August 12 (probable) - Jamal Khwaja, Indian philosopher (died 2020)
August 18 - Herbert Thomas Mandl (died 2007)
August 21 - Erwin Marquit (died 2015)
September 1 - Stanley Cavell (died 2018)
September 23 - Hugo Adam Bedau (died 2012)
September 24 - Louis H. Mackey (died 2004)
October 15 - Michel Foucault (died 1984)
October 29 - Joel Feinberg (died 2004)
September 4 - George Dickie (died 2020)
September 4 - Ivan Illich (died 2002)
October 9 - Hans Skjervheim (died 1999)
December 13 - Truman G. Madsen (died 2009)
December 25 - Eugene Gendlin, Austrian-born American philosopher (died 2017)
date unknown
- Abdoldjavad Falaturi, German scholar of Iranian origin (died 1996)
- William Alvin Howard
- Kai Nielsen, Canadian philosopher (died 2021)
- Hartley Rogers, Jr., mathematician working in recursion theory (died 2015)

Deaths

March 7 - Carl Nicolai Starcke (born 1858)
April 17 - Anna Willess Williams (born 1852)
June 21 - Paul Souriau (born 1852)
September 15 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken (born 1846)
December 23 - Swami Shraddhanand (born 1856)

Notes and References

https://web.archive.org/web/20101207044137/http://www.iwm.at/files/nl-57.pdf Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen: Newsletter 57
Book: Fritz Buri. The Buddha-Christ as the Lord of the true self: the religious philosophy of the Kyoto school and Christianity. 1997. Mercer University Press. 978-0-86554-536-6. 251.