1942 in philosophy

Events

• American Society for Aesthetics was founded in 1942.

  Publications

• C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
• Stephen Pepper, World Hypotheses

  [Philosophical literature]

• Albert Camus, The Stranger

  Births

• January 24 - Melvin Fitting, American logician
• February 24 - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
• March 28 - Daniel Dennett
• April 12 - Ellen Meiksins Wood
• April 22 - Giorgio Agamben
• April 26 - John Deely
• October 21 - Paul Churchland
• December 11 Derek Parfit
• John McDowell

  Deaths

• February 22 - Stefan Zweig
• April 15 - Robert Musil
• December 21 - Franz Boas