1955 in philosophy

1955 in philosophy

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
 * J. L. Mackie, "Evil and Omnipotence" (in Mind)
 * Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization
 * Paul Ricoeur, History and Truth
 * 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)
 * September 30 - Louis Leon Thurstone, American pioneer of psychometrics and psychophysics (b. 1887)
 * October 18 - José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (b. 1883)