1963 in philosophy

• Martin Buber was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 1963.

• Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) and On Revolution (1963)
• Donald Davidson, Actions, Reasons, and Causes (1963)
• William Hardy McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (1963)
• Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)
• Edmund Gettier, Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? (1963)

• June 17 - John Cowper Powys (born 1872)
• August 27 - W. E. B. Du Bois (born 1868)
• November 22 - Aldous Huxley (born 1894)
• November 22 - C. S. Lewis (born 1898)