• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, The Will of the Universe: The Unknown Intelligence (1928)
• Rudolf Carnap, The Logical Structure of the World (1928) and Pseudoproblems in Philosophy (1928)
• Helmuth Plessner, Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch (in German, not yet translated into English, 1928)

Philosophical literature edit

• Stefan George, The New Empire (originally published in German as Das Neue Reich, 1928)

• February 26 – Odo Marquard (died 2015)
• March 19 – Hans Küng (died 2021)
• May 4 – Elemér Hankiss, Hungarian sociologist and philosopher (died 2015)
• July 15 – Nicholas Rescher
• September 6 – Robert M. Pirsig (died 2017)
• September 14 – Humberto Maturana (died 2021)
• October 2 – Wolfhart Pannenberg (died 2014)
• October 4 – Alvin Toffler (died 2016)
• December 7 – Noam Chomsky
• December 13 – Solomon Feferman (died 2016)
• December 16 – Philip K. Dick (died 1982)

• May 19 - Max Scheler (born 1874)^[1]