1959 in philosophy
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1959 in philosophy
Events
[edit]- 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.[1]
Publications
[edit]- 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)
Births
[edit]- January 1 - Michel Onfray
- May 20 - Konrad Ott
Deaths
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