1951 in philosophy
# 1951 in philosophy

1951 in philosophy

## Publications

* Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
* Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
* Kenneth Arrow, Social Choice and Individual Values, popularizing social choice theory and Arrow's impossibility theorem
* Albert Camus, The Rebel (L'Homme révolté)
* Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
* Karl Huber (executed 1943), Leibniz
* Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man
* Hans Reichenbach, The Rise of Scientific Philosophy
* Willard Van Orman Quine, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," The Philosophical Review

## Births

* January 1 - Luc Ferry
* January 14 - Jonathan Westphal
* June 2 - François Jullien

## Deaths

* January 5 - Andrei Platonov (born 1899)
* January 7 - René Guénon (born 1886)
* April 4 - Sadegh Hedayat (born 1903)
* April 29 - Ludwig Wittgenstein (born 1889)
