1955 in philosophy
# 1955 in philosophy

1955 in philosophy

## Publications

* Raymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals
* J. L. Austin, How to Do Things With Words
* Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (published posthumously)
* Herman Dooyeweerd, A New Critique of Theoretical Thought
   * Volume II: The General Theory of Modal Spheres
   * Volume III: The Structures of Individuality of Temporal Reality
* Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques
* J. L. Mackie, "Evil and Omnipotence" (in Mind)
* Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization
* Paul Ricoeur, History and Truth
* Lionel Trilling, Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture
* Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty

## Births

* June 8 - Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web
* December 28 - Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic and human rights activist

## Deaths

* February 17 - L. P. Jacks, English philosopher (b. 1860)
* April 10 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit theologian, philosopher and paleontologist (b. 1881)
* April 18 - Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist (b. 1879)
* September 30 - Louis Leon Thurstone, American pioneer of psychometrics and psychophysics (b. 1887)
* October 18 - José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (b. 1883)
