1942 In Philosophy

1942 in philosophy

Events

• American Society for Aesthetics was founded in 1942.

Publications

• C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (1942)
• Stephen Pepper, World Hypotheses (1942)

Philosophical literature

• Albert Camus, The Stranger (1942)

Births

• January 24 - Melvin Fitting, American logician
• February 24 - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
• March 28 - Daniel Dennett
• April 12 - Ellen Meiksins Wood (died 2016)
• April 22 - Giorgio Agamben
• April 26 - John Deely
• October 21 - Paul Churchland
• December 11 Derek Parfit (died 2017)
• John McDowell (unspecified) (born 1942)

Deaths

• February 22 - Stefan Zweig (born 1881)
• April 15 - Robert Musil (born 1880)
• December 21 - Franz Boas (born 1858)

References

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