1945 in philosophy

Events

• January 1? - Jean-Paul Sartre refuses the Legion of Honour.

  Publications

• Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception
• Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

  [Philosophical fiction]

• Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil
• George Orwell, Animal Farm
• Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

  Births

• September 9 - Robert Alexy
• Philip Pettit

  Deaths

• February 1 - Johan Huizinga
• April 13 - Ernst Cassirer
• June 7 - Kitaro Nishida
• July 20 - Paul Valéry
• December 22 - Otto Neurath