1854 in philosophy

Events

• Søren Kierkegaard launches his attack on Christendom represented by the Church of Denmark with a series of newspaper pamphlets and polemics today collected under the title The Moment.

Publications

• George Boole, The Laws of Thought
• Henry David Thoreau, ''Walden''

Births

• January 1 - James George Frazer
• April 29 - Henri Poincaré

Deaths

• August 20 - Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling