1947 in philosophy

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Events

Colin Murray Turbayne completes his service as Chief of Staff for Australian Intelligence under General Douglas MacArthur during World War II and emigrates from Australia to the United States to pursue his graduate studies. ^[1]^[2]

Publications

Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit (1947)^[3]
Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947)^[4]
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)^[5]
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)^[6]
December 29 - Harold Arthur Prichard (burn 1871)^[7]
December 30 - Alfred North Whitehead (born 1861)
Marcel Foucault
Konstanty Michalski

References

↑ Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers Shook, John. 2005 Biography of Colin Murray Turbayne on Google Books
↑ In Memorium: Colin Murray Turbayne Paul J. Olscamp - President Emeritus Bowing Green State University "Berkely Newsletter" on berkelystudies.philosophy.fsu
↑ Ford, James (8 June 2014). "BEHOLD THE SPIRIT A Meditation on Alan Watts & His Brief Experiment in a Mystical Christianity" . Retrieved 28 March 2015.
↑ Schmidt, James (1998). "'Language, Mythology, and Enlightenment: Historical Notes on Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment.'". Social Research. 65 (4): 807-38 (p.809).
↑ Watkins, Eric (2015). "Ameriks, Karl". In Audi, Robert (ed.). The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (Third ed.). New York City: Cambridge University Press. pp. 31–32. ISBN 978-1-139-05750-9. OCLC 927145544.
↑ Van Steenberghen, Fernand (2000). "Maurice De Wulf". In Damico, Helen (ed.). Medieval Scholarship: Philosophy and the Arts. Vol. 3. Garland Publishing. pp. 43–45. ISBN 9780815333395 . Retrieved 2021-05-26– via Google Books.
↑ Dancy, Jonathan. "Harold Arthur Prichard". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 19 June 2012.

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[books.google.com-1] Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers Shook, John. 2005 Biography of Colin Murray Turbayne on Google Books

[berkeleystudies.philosophy.fsu.edu-2] In Memorium: Colin Murray Turbayne Paul J. Olscamp - President Emeritus Bowing Green State University "Berkely Newsletter" on berkelystudies.philosophy.fsu

[Patheos_Ford-3] Ford, James (8 June 2014). "BEHOLD THE SPIRIT A Meditation on Alan Watts & His Brief Experiment in a Mystical Christianity" . Retrieved 28 March 2015.

[4] Schmidt, James (1998). "'Language, Mythology, and Enlightenment: Historical Notes on Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment.'". Social Research. 65 (4): 807-38 (p.809).

[:0-5] Watkins, Eric (2015). "Ameriks, Karl". In Audi, Robert (ed.). The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (Third ed.). New York City: Cambridge University Press. pp. 31–32. ISBN 978-1-139-05750-9. OCLC 927145544.

[Medieval-6] Van Steenberghen, Fernand (2000). "Maurice De Wulf". In Damico, Helen (ed.). Medieval Scholarship: Philosophy and the Arts. Vol. 3. Garland Publishing. pp. 43–45. ISBN 9780815333395 . Retrieved 2021-05-26– via Google Books.

[SEP-7] Dancy, Jonathan. "Harold Arthur Prichard". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 19 June 2012.

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