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.
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)