1951 in philosophy

1951 in philosophy

Publications

 * Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
 * Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
 * Kenneth Arrow, Social Choice and Individual Values, popularizing social choice theory and Arrow's impossibility theorem
 * Albert Camus, The Rebel (L'Homme révolté)
 * Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
 * Karl Huber (executed 1943), Leibniz
 * Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man
 * Hans Reichenbach, The Rise of Scientific Philosophy
 * Willard Van Orman Quine, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," The Philosophical Review

Births

 * January 1 - Luc Ferry
 * January 14 - Jonathan Westphal
 * June 2 - François Jullien

Deaths

 * January 5 - Andrei Platonov (born 1899)
 * January 7 - René Guénon (born 1886)
 * April 4 - Sadegh Hedayat (born 1903)
 * April 29 - Ludwig Wittgenstein (born 1889)