1950 in philosophy

1950 in philosophy

Events

 * Bertrand Russell was awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought".

Publications

 * Martin Heidegger, Off the Beaten Track including the essay The Origin of the Work of Art (originally published in German as Holzwege in 1950)
 * Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings (1950)
 * Ernst Gombrich, The Story of Art (1950)
 * Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)

Births

 * September 9 - Seyla Benhabib

Deaths

 * February 2 - Constantin Carathéodory (born 1873)
 * March 1 - Alfred Korzybski (born 1879)
 * September 6 - Olaf Stapledon (born 1886)
 * October 9 - Nicolai Hartmann (born 1882)