1938 in philosophy

These are the following events that transpired during 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.
• The Institute of General Semantics is founded.

Publications

• John Dewey, ' and Experience and Education
• Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens
• Bertrand Russell, '
• Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld, The Evolution of Physics
• Karl Jaspers, Philosophy of Existence
• Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities
• Henri de Lubac, '
• 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