1950 in philosophy
# 1950 in philosophy

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 (originally published in German as Holzwege in 1950)
* Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings (1950)
* Ernst Gombrich, The Story of Art (1950)
* Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)

## Births

* September 9 - Seyla Benhabib

## Deaths

* February 2 - Constantin Carathéodory (born 1873)
* March 1 - Alfred Korzybski (born 1879)
* September 6 - Olaf Stapledon (born 1886)
* October 9 - Nicolai Hartmann (born 1882)
