1947 in philosophy

Events

Publications

• Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit
• Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment
• Max Horkheimer, The Eclipse of Reason
• P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous
• Rudolf Carnap, Meaning and Necessity
• Jean-Paul Sartre, What Is Literature?

  Births

• January 14 - Wlodek Rabinowicz
• January 24 - Susan Bordo
• February 7 - Peter Blokhuis
• February 20 - Philip Kitcher
• February 20 - Leonardo Moledo
• February 21 - Nanda Thein Zan
• February 22 - Frank Van Dun
• February 25 - Marc Sautet
• March 2 - Yuri Matiyasevich
• March 13 - Sayyid Al-Qemany
• March 26 - Subhash Kak
• March 27 - Daniel M. Hausman
• April 1 - Nadežda Čačinovič
• April 2 - Camille Paglia
• April 21 - Terence Irwin
• April 25 - Timo Airaksinen
• May 6 - Martha Nussbaum
• May 12 - Michael Ignatieff
• May 20 - Nancy Fraser
• May 29 - Goran Švob
• June 10 - Geydar Dzhemal
• June 19 - John Ralston Saul
• June 21 - Fernando Savater
• June 22 - Bruno Latour
• June 26 - Peter Sloterdijk
• July 6 - Michael Williams
• July 26 - Steven Tainer
• August 28 - Jens Staubrand
• September 8 - Rémi Brague
• September 10 - Karen J. Warren
• September 20 - Gillian Rose
• September 29 - Ülo Kaevats
• October 24 - Barbara Cassin
• November 7 - Günter Abel
• November 21 - David Gooding

  Unspecified Birth Dates

• Gordon Anderson
• Karl Ameriks
• Thomas Baldwin
• David Bell
• Carmine Benincasa
• John Broome
• Noël Carroll
• David Conway
• Robert T. Craig
• Jean Curthoys
• Oliver Friggieri
• James Heisig
• Bensalem Himmich
• Paul Horwich
• Ole Fogh Kirkeby
• Louise Lawler
• David Loy
• David Malament
• Shkelzen Maliqi
• Françoise Meltzer
• Leonardo Moledo
• Alun Munslow
• David Papineau
• Jean-Jacques Pelletier
• Mark de Bretton Platts
• Vince Riolo
• Alan Soble
• Alfred I. Tauber
• Xu Youyu

  Deaths

• January 12 - George Chatterton-Hill
• January 22 - Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot
• January 28 - Morris Raphael Cohen
• February 24 - Pierre Janet
• May 8 - Cassius Jackson Keyser
• June 11 - Richard Hönigswald
• July - Léon Robin
• July 19 - Max Dessoir
• July 20 - Swami Vipulananda
• September 9 - Ananda Coomaraswamy
• September 22 - Pierre Lecomte du Noüy
• September 27 - Hans Cornelius
• October 4 - Max Planck
• December 13 - Nicholas Roerich
• December 23 - Ziauddin Ahmad
• December 30 - Alfred North Whitehead
• Maurice De Wulf
• Marcel Foucault
• Konstanty Michalski
• Harold Arthur Prichard