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1938 philosophy
These are the following events that transpired during 1938 in philosophy:
Events
September 2 – B. F. Skinner's ground-breaking book The Behavior of Organisms was first published. Of the 800 copies in the first printing, only 548 had been sold by 1946.http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/phil/blphil_chron_1900.htm Aquinas and Descartes to Kant: The Origins of Early Modern Philosophy 2016-02-07 2016-02-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20160208012229/http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/phil/blphil_chron_1900.htm dead
The Institute of General Semantics is founded.
Publications
John Dewey, Logic: The Theory of Inquiry and Experience and Education
Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens
Bertrand Russell, Power: A New Social Analysis
Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld, The Evolution of Physics
Karl Jaspers, Philosophy of Existence
Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities
Henri de Lubac, Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man
Charles W. Morris, Foundations of the Theory of Signs
Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (novel)
Alan Turing, Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals
Jean Wahl, Kierkegaardian Studies
Births
April 11 - Muhammad Shahrur, Syrian thinker and author (died 2019)
July 8 - Justin Leiber (died 2016)
July 10 - David Hugh Mellor, English philosopher (died 2020)
August 3 - Remo Bodei (died 2019)
November 16 - Robert Nozick (died 2002)
Deaths
March 27 - William Stern (born 1871)
April 26 - Edmund Husserl (born 1859)
References
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