1947 in philosophy

1947 in philosophy

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. [https://books.google.com/books?id=DsKvAwAAQBAJ&dq=Colin+Murray+Turbayne&pg=PA2451 Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers Shook, John. 2005 Biography of Colin Murray Turbayne on Google Books][https://berkeleystudies.philosophy.fsu.edu/sites/g/files/upcbnu886/files/BS%20017%202006%20Turbayne%20Obit.pdf In Memorium: Colin Murray Turbayne Paul J. Olscamp - President Emeritus Bowing Green State University "Berkely Newsletter" on berkelystudies.philosophy.fsu]

Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit (1947){{cite web |last1=Ford |first1=James |date=8 June 2014 |title=BEHOLD THE SPIRIT A Meditation on Alan Watts & His Brief Experiment in a Mystical Christianity |url=http://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkeymind/2014/06/behold-the-spirit-a-meditation-on-alan-watts-his-brief-experiment-in-a-mystical-christianity.html |accessdate=28 March 2015}}
Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947){{Cite journal |last=Schmidt |first=James |date=1998 |title='Language, Mythology, and Enlightenment: Historical Notes on Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment.' |journal=Social Research |volume=65 |issue=4 |pages=807-38 (p.809)}}
Max Horkheimer, The Eclipse of Reason (1947)
P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous (1947)
Rudolf Carnap, Meaning and Necessity (1947)

Gordon Anderson (unknown)
Karl Ameriks (unknown){{Cite book |last=Watkins |first=Eric |title=The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-139-05750-9 |editor-last=Audi |editor-first=Robert |edition=Third |location=New York City |pages=31–32 |chapter=Ameriks, Karl |oclc=927145544}}
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)

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){{Cite book |last=Van Steenberghen |first=Fernand |title=Medieval Scholarship: Philosophy and the Arts |publisher=Garland Publishing |year=2000 |isbn=9780815333395 |editor-last=Damico |editor-first=Helen |volume=3 |pages=43–45 |chapter=Maurice De Wulf |access-date=2021-05-26 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MIx59DKdec0C&pg=PA43 |via=Google Books}}
December 29 - Harold Arthur Prichard (burn 1871){{cite encyclopedia |title=Harold Arthur Prichard |encyclopedia=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/prichard/ |access-date=19 June 2012 |last=Dancy |first=Jonathan}}
December 30 - Alfred North Whitehead (born 1861)
Marcel Foucault
Konstanty Michalski