1913 in philosophy

Events

• Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• Foundation stone of First Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, was laid as a centre for the Anthroposophical Society by Rudolf Steiner.

Publications

• Edmund Husserl, Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology
• Walther Rathenau, Zur Mechanik des Geistes
• Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital
• Max Scheler, Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values
• Niels Bohr, "On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules"
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, review of Peter Coffey's ''The Science of Logic''

Births

• February 27 - Paul Ricœur
• March 3 - Roger Caillois
• September 25 - Norman O. Brown
• September 26 - Lewis White Beck
• November 7 - Albert Camus

Deaths

• February 22 - Ferdinand de Saussure
• November 7 - Alfred Russel Wallace