1944 in philosophy
1944 in philosophyEvents
- Johannes Vilhelm Jensen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style".
Publications
- Ernst Cassirer, An Essay on Man
- Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation
- Erwin Schrödinger, What Is Life?
- Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
- Charles Stevenson, Ethics and Language
- Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones and A New Refutation of Time
- Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
Births
- February 23 - Ronald K. Hoeflin, American philosopher
- February 27 - Roger Scruton, English philosopher
- June 23 - Peter Bieri, Swiss philosopher and novelist
- October 2 - Vernor Vinge, American speculative fiction writer
Deaths
- July 31 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- October 2 - Benjamin Fondane
- December 30 - Romain Rolland
