title: 1947 in philosophy
text: # 1947 in philosophy
  
  1947 in philosophy
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit (1947)
  * Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947)
  * Max Horkheimer, The Eclipse of Reason (1947)
  * P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous (1947)
  * Rudolf Carnap, Meaning and Necessity (1947)
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 14 - Wlodek Rabinowicz
  * January 24 - Susan Bordo
  * February 7 - Peter Blokhuis
  * February 20 - Philip Kitcher
  * February 20 - Leonardo Moledo (died 2014)
  * February 21 - Nanda Thein Zan (died 2011)
  * February 22 - Frank Van Dun
  * February 25 - Marc Sautet (died 1998)
  * 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 (died 2013)
  * June 10 - Geydar Dzhemal (died 2016)
  * 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 (died 1995)
  * September 29 - Ülo Kaevats (died 2015)
  * October 24 - Barbara Cassin
  * November 7 - Günter Abel
  * November 21 - David Gooding (died 2009)
  
  ### Unspecified Birth Dates
  
  * Gordon Anderson (unknown)
  * Karl Ameriks (unknown)
  * Thomas Baldwin (unknown)
  * David Bell (unknown)
  * Carmine Benincasa (unknown)
  * John Broome (unknown)
  * Noël Carroll (unknown)
  * David Conway (unknown)
  * Robert T. Craig (unknown)
  * Jean Curthoys (unknown)
  * Oliver Friggieri (unknown)
  * James Heisig (unknown)
  * Bensalem Himmich (unknown, born 1948?)
  * Paul Horwich (unknown)
  * Ole Fogh Kirkeby (unknown)
  * Louise Lawler (unknown)
  * David Loy (unknown)
  * David Malament (unknown)
  * Shkelzen Maliqi (unknown)
  * Françoise Meltzer (unknown)
  * Leonardo Moledo (unknown)
  * Alun Munslow (unknown)
  * David Papineau (unknown)
  * Jean-Jacques Pelletier (unknown)
  * Mark de Bretton Platts (unknown)
  * Vince Riolo (unknown)
  * Alan Soble (unknown)
  * Alfred I. Tauber (unknown)
  * Xu Youyu (unknown)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 12 - George Chatterton-Hill (born 1883)
  * January 22 - Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (born 1888)
  * January 28 - Morris Raphael Cohen (born 1880)
  * February 24 - Pierre Janet (born 1859)
  * May 8 - Cassius Jackson Keyser (born 1862)
  * June 11 - Richard Hönigswald (born 1875)
  * July - Léon Robin (born 1866)
  * July 19 - Max Dessoir (born 1867)
  * July 20 - Swami Vipulananda (born 1892)
  * September 9 - Ananda Coomaraswamy (born 1877)
  * September 22 - Pierre Lecomte du Noüy (born 1883)
  * September 27 - Hans Cornelius (born 1863)
  * October 4 - Max Planck (born 1858)
  * December 13 - Nicholas Roerich (born 1874)
  * December 23 - Ziauddin Ahmad (born 1878)
  * December 23 - Maurice De Wulf (born 1867)
  * December 29 - Harold Arthur Prichard (burn 1871)
  * December 30 - Alfred North Whitehead (born 1861)
  * Marcel Foucault
  * Konstanty Michalski
  