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.
Publications
- Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit
- Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment
- Max Horkheimer, The Eclipse of Reason
- P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous
- Rudolf Carnap, ''Meaning and Necessity''
Births
- January 14 - Wlodek Rabinowicz
- January 24 - Susan Bordo
- February 7 - Peter Blokhuis
- February 20 - Philip Kitcher
- February 20 - Leonardo Moledo
- February 21 - Nanda Thein Zan
- February 22 - Frank Van Dun
- February 25 - Marc Sautet
- March 2 - Yuri Matiyasevich
- March 13 - Sayyid Al-Qemany
- March 26 - Subhash Kak
- March 27 - Daniel M. Hausman
- April 1 - Nadežda Čačinovič
- April 2 - Camille Paglia
- April 21 - Terence Irwin
- April 25 - Timo Airaksinen
- May 6 - Martha Nussbaum
- May 12 - Michael Ignatieff
- May 20 - Nancy Fraser
- May 29 - Goran Švob
- June 10 - Geydar Dzhemal
- June 19 - John Ralston Saul
- June 21 - Fernando Savater
- June 22 - Bruno Latour
- June 26 - Peter Sloterdijk
- July 6 - Michael Williams
- July 26 - Steven Tainer
- August 28 - Jens Staubrand
- September 8 - Rémi Brague
- September 10 - Karen J. Warren
- September 20 - Gillian Rose
- September 29 - Ülo Kaevats
- October 24 - Barbara Cassin
- November 7 - Günter Abel
- November 21 - David Gooding
Unspecified Birth Dates
- Gordon Anderson
- Karl Ameriks
- Thomas Baldwin
- David Bell
- Carmine Benincasa
- John Broome
- Noël Carroll
- David Conway
- Robert T. Craig
- Jean Curthoys
- Oliver Friggieri
- James Heisig
- Bensalem Himmich
- Paul Horwich
- Ole Fogh Kirkeby
- Louise Lawler
- David Loy
- David Malament
- Shkelzen Maliqi
- Françoise Meltzer
- Leonardo Moledo
- Alun Munslow
- David Papineau
- Jean-Jacques Pelletier
- Mark de Bretton Platts
- Vince Riolo
- Alan Soble
- Alfred I. Tauber
- Xu Youyu
Deaths
- January 12 - George Chatterton-Hill
- January 22 - Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot
- January 28 - Morris Raphael Cohen
- February 24 - Pierre Janet
- May 8 - Cassius Jackson Keyser
- June 11 - Richard Hönigswald
- July - Léon Robin
- July 19 - Max Dessoir
- July 20 - Swami Vipulananda
- September 9 - Ananda Coomaraswamy
- September 22 - Pierre Lecomte du Noüy
- September 27 - Hans Cornelius
- October 4 - Max Planck
- December 13 - Nicholas Roerich
- December 23 - Ziauddin Ahmad
- December 23 - Maurice De Wulf
- December 29 - Harold Arthur Prichard
- December 30 - Alfred North Whitehead
- Marcel Foucault
- Konstanty Michalski