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