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".

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

• Seyla Benhabib (September 9)

Deaths

• Constantin Carathéodory (February 2)
• Alfred Korzybski (March 1)
• Olaf Stapledon (September 6)
• Nicolai Hartmann (October 9)