1938 in philosophy

## Contents

* 1 Events
* 2 Publications
* 3 Births
* 4 Deaths
* 5 References

## 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.[1]

## 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

1. ↑ http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/phil/blphil_chron_1900.htm

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