1950 In Philosophy

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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".[1]

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)[2]

References

  1. "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950 - Bertrand Russell". Nobelprize.org. https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1950/index.html. Retrieved 11 February 2013. 
  2. Poli, Roberto. "Nicolai Hartmann". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP). http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nicolai-hartmann/. Retrieved 11 February 2013. 




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