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".{{cite web|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950 - Bertrand Russell|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1950/index.html|publisher=Nobelprize.org|accessdate=11 February 2013}}
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){{cite web|last=Poli|first=Roberto|title=Nicolai Hartmann|url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nicolai-hartmann/|publisher=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)|accessdate=11 February 2013}}