1947 in philosophy
# 1947 in philosophy

1947 in philosophy

## Publications

* Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit (1947)
* Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947)
* Max Horkheimer, The Eclipse of Reason (1947)
* P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous (1947)
* Rudolf Carnap, Meaning and Necessity (1947)

## Births

* January 14 - Wlodek Rabinowicz
* January 24 - Susan Bordo
* February 7 - Peter Blokhuis
* February 20 - Philip Kitcher
* February 20 - Leonardo Moledo (died 2014)
* February 21 - Nanda Thein Zan (died 2011)
* February 22 - Frank Van Dun
* February 25 - Marc Sautet (died 1998)
* 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 (died 2013)
* June 10 - Geydar Dzhemal (died 2016)
* 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 (died 1995)
* September 29 - Ülo Kaevats (died 2015)
* October 24 - Barbara Cassin
* November 7 - Günter Abel
* November 21 - David Gooding (died 2009)

### Unspecified Birth Dates

* Gordon Anderson (unknown)
* Karl Ameriks (unknown)
* Thomas Baldwin (unknown)
* David Bell (unknown)
* Carmine Benincasa (unknown)
* John Broome (unknown)
* Noël Carroll (unknown)
* David Conway (unknown)
* Robert T. Craig (unknown)
* Jean Curthoys (unknown)
* Oliver Friggieri (unknown)
* James Heisig (unknown)
* Bensalem Himmich (unknown, born 1948?)
* Paul Horwich (unknown)
* Ole Fogh Kirkeby (unknown)
* Louise Lawler (unknown)
* David Loy (unknown)
* David Malament (unknown)
* Shkelzen Maliqi (unknown)
* Françoise Meltzer (unknown)
* Leonardo Moledo (unknown)
* Alun Munslow (unknown)
* David Papineau (unknown)
* Jean-Jacques Pelletier (unknown)
* Mark de Bretton Platts (unknown)
* Vince Riolo (unknown)
* Alan Soble (unknown)
* Alfred I. Tauber (unknown)
* Xu Youyu (unknown)

## Deaths

* January 12 - George Chatterton-Hill (born 1883)
* January 22 - Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (born 1888)
* January 28 - Morris Raphael Cohen (born 1880)
* February 24 - Pierre Janet (born 1859)
* May 8 - Cassius Jackson Keyser (born 1862)
* June 11 - Richard Hönigswald (born 1875)
* July - Léon Robin (born 1866)
* July 19 - Max Dessoir (born 1867)
* July 20 - Swami Vipulananda (born 1892)
* September 9 - Ananda Coomaraswamy (born 1877)
* September 22 - Pierre Lecomte du Noüy (born 1883)
* September 27 - Hans Cornelius (born 1863)
* October 4 - Max Planck (born 1858)
* December 13 - Nicholas Roerich (born 1874)
* December 23 - Ziauddin Ahmad (born 1878)
* December 23 - Maurice De Wulf (born 1867)
* December 29 - Harold Arthur Prichard (burn 1871)
* December 30 - Alfred North Whitehead (born 1861)
* Marcel Foucault
* Konstanty Michalski
