1955 in philosophy
Events
Publications
- Raymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals
- J. L. Austin, How to Do Things With Words
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (published posthumously)
- Herman Dooyeweerd, A New Critique of Theoretical Thought
- Volume II: The General Theory of Modal Spheres
- Volume III: The Structures of Individuality of Temporal Reality
- Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques
- Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization
- Lionel Trilling, Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture
- Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty
Births
- June 8 - Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web
- December 28 - Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic and human rights activist
Deaths
- February 17 - L. P. Jacks, English philosopher (b. 1860)
- April 10 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit theologian, philosopher and paleontologist (b. 1881)
- April 18 - Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist (b. 1879)[1]
- September 30 - Louis Leon Thurstone, American pioneer of psychometrics and psychophysics (b. 1887)
- October 18 - José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (b. 1883)
gollark: Basically the documentation is incomplete everywhere and all is suffering?
gollark: The old one isn't either, to be fair.
gollark: That's the edu version.
gollark: It's real code on real computers with weird IO.
gollark: This IS real programming.
References
- Howard, Don A. "Einstein's Philosophy of Science". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
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