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 (Phénoménologie de la perception)
• Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

Philosophical fiction

• Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil)
• George Orwell, Animal Farm
• Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason (L'âge de raison)

Births

• September 9 - Robert Alexy
• Philip Pettit

Deaths

• February 1 - Johan Huizinga (born 1872)
• April 13 - Ernst Cassirer^[1] (born 1874)
• June 7 - Kitaro Nishida (born 1870)
• July 20 - Paul Valéry (born 1871)
• December 22 - Otto Neurath (born 1882)