1962 in philosophy

• Progressive utilization theory (PROUT) is fully outlined for the first time by Indian philosopher and spiritual leader Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar.
• Perry Anderson takes over editorship of the New Left Review in the U.K., changing its emphasis to the theoretical.

• Geach, Peter. Reference and Generality. Cornell University Press.
• Kuhn, T. S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962)
• Leavis, F. R. Two Cultures? The Significance of C.P. Snow, (the Richmond Lecture, with an Essay on Sir Charles Snow's Rede Lecture by Michael Yudkin), London: Chatto & Windus.
• Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962)
• Alfred Schmidt, The Concept of Nature in Marx (1962)
• Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962)
• J. L. Austin, Sense and Sensibilia (published posthumously in 1962)
• Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)
• Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (1962)
• Wolfhart Pannenberg, What Is Man? (1962)

• January 17 - Nick Land
• February 26 - Andreas Kinneging
• April 5 - Roel Kuiper
• April 24 - Keith DeRose, American philosopher and academic
• April 26 - Algis Uždavinys (died 2010)
• May 3 - Anselm Jappe
• June 16 - Jon Oberlander
• August 13 - Leonidas Donskis (died 2016)
• Lewis Gordon
• Lori Gruen
• Will Kymlicka
• Robin LePoidevin
• Timothy Madigan
• Pete Moore
• Dominique Moulon
• Stephen Mulhall
• Aref Ali Nayed
• Mark Rowlands
• Renata Salecl
• Sonu Shamdasani
• Mikael Stenmark
• Tridandi Swami
• Evan Thompson
• Nigel Warburton
• Tasos Zembylas

• January 20 - Robinson Jeffers, 75
• January 31 - Stefan Błachowski, 72
• February 14 - Kurt Singer, 75
• February 24 - Hu Shih, 70, Chinese philosopher, essayist and diplomat
• April 19 - Jacques Chevalier, 80
• April 29 - Hajime Tanabe
• May 11 - Arthur Edward Murphy, 60
• June 24 - William Mitchell (philosopher), 101
• July 6 - John Anderson, 68, Scottish-born Australian philosopher and academic
• July 9 - Georges Bataille, 64
• July 25 - Anastasio Cuschieri, 90
• October 9 - Milan Vidmar, 77
• October 16 - Gaston Bachelard, 78
• November 2 - George Barton Cutten, 88
• November 18 - Niels Bohr, 77
• December 1 - Henri Wallon (psychologist), 83
• December 27 - Serge Raynaud de la Ferriere, 46, French religious philosopher
• Gerardus Johannes Geers
• Francesc Pujols
• Francisco Romero (philosopher)