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
• 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) ^[1]
• September 30 - Louis Leon Thurstone, American pioneer of psychometrics and psychophysics (b. 1887)
• October 18 - José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (b. 1883)

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