1955 in philosophy

## Contents

* 1 Events
* 2 Publications
* 3 Births
* 4 Deaths
* 5 References

## 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
* 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)

## References

1. ↑ Howard, Don A.. "Einstein's Philosophy of Science". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/einstein-philscience/. Retrieved 2013-02-08.

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