1854 in philosophy

1854 in philosophy

Events

 * Søren Kierkegaard launches his attack on Christendom represented by the Church of Denmark with a series of newspaper pamphlets and polemics today collected under the title The Moment.

Publications

 * George Boole, The Laws of Thought (1854)
 * Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)

Births

 * January 1 - James George Frazer (died 1941)
 * April 29 - Henri Poincaré (died 1912)

Deaths

 * August 20 - Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (born 1775)