1938 in philosophy explained

These are the following events that have transpired during 1938 concerning the realm or topic of philosophy:

Events

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.^[1]

Publications

• John Dewey, and Experience and Education
• Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens
• Bertrand Russell,
• Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld, The Evolution of Physics
• Karl Jaspers, Philosophy of Existence
• Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities
• Henri de Lubac,
• 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

Births

• April 11 - Muhammad Shahrur, Syrian thinker and author (died 2019)
• July 8 - Justin Leiber (died 2016)
• July 10 - David Hugh Mellor, English philosopher (died 2020)
• August 3 - Remo Bodei (died 2019)
• November 16 - Robert Nozick (died 2002)

Deaths

• March 27 - William Stern (born 1871)
• April 26 - Edmund Husserl (born 1859)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Aquinas and Descartes to Kant: The Origins of Early Modern Philosophy. 2016-02-07. 2016-02-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20160208012229/http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/phil/blphil_chron_1900.htm. dead.