1938 in 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.
- 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
- Alan Turing, Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals
- Jean Wahl, ''Kierkegaardian Studies''
Births
- April 11 - Muhammad Shahrur, Syrian thinker and author
- July 8 - Justin Leiber
- July 10 - David Hugh Mellor, English philosopher
- August 3 - Remo Bodei
- November 16 - Robert Nozick