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.[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)
 
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