1945 in philosophy
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1945 in philosophy
Events
- January 1? - Jean-Paul Sartre refuses the Legion of Honour.
Publications
- Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (Phénoménologie de la perception)
- Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
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- Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil)
- George Orwell, Animal Farm
- Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason (L'âge de raison)
Births
- September 9 - Robert Alexy
- Philip Pettit
Deaths
- February 1 - Johan Huizinga (born 1872)
- April 13 - Ernst Cassirer{{cite web|last=Friedman|first=Michael|title=Ernst Cassirer|url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cassirer/|publisher=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)|accessdate=14 February 2013}} (born 1874)
- June 7 - Kitaro Nishida (born 1870)
- July 20 - Paul Valéry (born 1871)
- December 22 - Otto Neurath (born 1882)