1959 in philosophy

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• Colin Murray Turbayne demonstrates in his publication "Berkeley's Two Concepts of Mind" that George Berkeley intended to transcend ontological idealism in order to embrass a more skeptical view of the presence of a universal substantial mind.[https://books.google.com/books?id=DsKvAwAAQBAJ&dq=Colin+Murray+Turbayne&pg=PA2451 Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers Shook, John. 2005 Biography of Colin Murray Turbayne on Google Books]

• Ernest Gellner, Words and Things (1959)
• C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures (1959)
• Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death (1959)
• P. F. Strawson, Individuals: An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics (1959)
• Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959)

• January 1 - Michel Onfray
• May 20 - Konrad Ott

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