1964 in philosophy

Events

• Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but he declined it, stating that a writer must "refuse to let himself be transformed into an institution, even if this occurs under the most honorable circumstances".
• The Sigmund Freud Prize was inaugurated in 1964.

  Publications

• Lon L. Fuller, The Morality of Law
• Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao
• Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man
• Marshall McLuhan,
• Jürgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope

  Births

• December 8 - Richard David Precht
• December 30 - Christof Rapp

  Deaths

• March 18 - Norbert Wiener
• April 14 - Rachel Carson
• April 23 - Karl Polanyi