1926 in philosophy
Events
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Publications
- Jan Smuts, Holism and Evolution (1926) [Note: The term holism was coined by the author.]
- Nicolai Hartmann, Ethik (1926)
- Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy (1926)
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, The Hindu View of Life (1926)
Births
- January 3 - Robert Misrahi (died 2023)
- January 4 - Marcus George Singer (died 2016)
- January 14 - Peter Winch, British philosopher of social science (died 1997)[https://web.archive.org/web/20101207044137/http://www.iwm.at/files/nl-57.pdf Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen: Newsletter 57]
- January 17 - Shizuteru Ueda, Japanese philosopher of religion{{cite book|author=Fritz Buri|title=The Buddha-Christ as the Lord of the true self: the religious philosophy of the Kyoto school and Christianity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_7D5x5VmwoC&pg=PA251|year=1997|publisher=Mercer University Press|isbn=978-0-86554-536-6|page=251}} (died 2019)
- February 1 - Leonardo Polo (died 2013)
- April 6 - Edward Grant (died 2020)
- April 9 - John E. Thomas (died 1996)
- April 29 - Renford Bambrough (died 1999)
- June 6 - José María Valverde (died 1996)
- June 25 - Ingeborg Bachmann (died 1973)
- June 26 - Karel Kosík (died 2003)
- July 8 - David Malet Armstrong (died 2014)
- July 31 - Hilary Putnam (died 2016)
- August 2 - Herbert McCabe (died 2001)
- August 7 - Arthur Chute McGill, Canadian-born American theologian and philosopher (died 1980)
- August 12 (probable) - Jamal Khwaja, Indian philosopher (died 2020)
- August 18 - Herbert Thomas Mandl (died 2007)
- August 21 - Erwin Marquit (died 2015)
- September 1 - Stanley Cavell (died 2018)
- September 23 - Hugo Adam Bedau (died 2012)
- September 24 - Louis H. Mackey (died 2004)
- October 15 - Michel Foucault (died 1984)
- October 29 - Joel Feinberg (died 2004)
- September 4 - George Dickie (died 2020)
- September 4 - Ivan Illich (died 2002)
- October 9 - Hans Skjervheim (died 1999)
- December 13 - Truman G. Madsen (died 2009)
- December 25 - Eugene Gendlin, Austrian-born American philosopher (died 2017)
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- Abdoldjavad Falaturi, German scholar of Iranian origin (died 1996)
- William Alvin Howard
- Kai Nielsen, Canadian philosopher (died 2021)
- Hartley Rogers, Jr., mathematician working in recursion theory (died 2015)
Deaths
- March 7 - Carl Nicolai Starcke (born 1858)
- April 17 - Anna Willess Williams (born 1852)
- June 21 - Paul Souriau (born 1852)
- September 15 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken (born 1846)
- December 23 - Swami Shraddhanand (born 1856)