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".

Publications

• Martin Heidegger, Off the Beaten Track including the essay The Origin of the Work of Art
• Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings
• Ernst Gombrich, The Story of Art
• Alan Turing, ''Computing Machinery and Intelligence''

Births

• September 9 - Seyla Benhabib

Deaths

• February 2 - Constantin Carathéodory
• March 1 - Alfred Korzybski
• September 6 - Olaf Stapledon
• October 9 - Nicolai Hartmann