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1911 In Philosophy
1911 in philosophy Events Births * March 26 - J. L. Austin, English philosopher of language (d. 1960) * June 4 or 12 - Milovan Đilas, Montenegran Yugoslav Marxist theoretician, politician, Partisan, dissident and author (d. 1995) * June 11 - Norman Malcolm, American philosopher (d. 1990) Deaths References {{Reflist Philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ... 20th-century philosophy Philosophy by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 In Philosophy
1960 in philosophy Events * British Society of Aesthetics founded. * Dutch mathematician Hans Freudenthal invents the artificial language Lincos, intended for communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. Publications * Elias Canetti, ''Crowds and Power'' * Hans-Georg Gadamer, '' Truth and Method'' Philosophical fiction * Raja Rao, ''The Serpent and the Rope'' Births * February 27 - Simon Critchley, English philosopher * June 25 - Vittorio Hösle, Italian-born German philosopher Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding " earin philosophy" article: * January 4 - Albert Camus, French author and philosopher (born 1913) (automobile accident) * February 8 - J. L. Austin, English philosopher of language (born 1911) (lung cancer) References {{Reflist Philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are ofte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milovan Đilas
Milovan Djilas (; , ; 12 June 1911 – 30 April 1995) was a Yugoslav communist politician, theorist and author. He was a key figure in the Partisan movement during World War II, as well as in the post-war government. A self-identified democratic socialist, Djilas became one of the best-known and most prominent dissidents in Yugoslavia and all of Eastern Europe. During an era of several decades, he critiqued communism from the viewpoint of trying to improve it from within; after the revolutions of 1989 and the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, he critiqued it from an anti-communist viewpoint of someone whose youthful dreams had been disillusioned. Early life and revolutionary activities Milovan Djilas was born in Podbišće near Mojkovac, Kingdom of Montenegro, on 12 June 1911 into a Montenegrin Serb peasant family. He was the fourth of nine children. His father Nikola, a recipient of the Obilić Medal for bravery, served in the Montenegrin Army during the Balkan Wars of 1912 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 In Philosophy
1995 in philosophy Events * Habermas-Rawls debate * Michael Dummett was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy "his penetrating discussion of Frege's philosophy and for his contributions to the theory of linguistic meaning among them his discussion of how the metaphysical dispute between realism and anti-realism is connected with the meaning-theoretical question of the validity of logical laws." Publications * John Searle, '' The Construction of Social Reality'', 1995 * John Brockman, ''The Third Culture'', 1995 Deaths * January 7 - Murray Rothbard (born 1926) * April 12 - Mou Zongsan (born 1909) * April 20 - Milovan Đilas (born 1911) * September 11 - Georges Canguilhem (born 1904) * November 4 - Gilles Deleuze (born 1925) * November 5 - Ernest Gellner (born 1925) * December 25 - Emmanuel Lévinas (born 1906) References {{Reflist Philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Malcolm
Norman Malcolm (; 11 June 1911 – 4 August 1990) was an American philosopher. Biography Malcolm was born in Selden, Kansas. He studied philosophy with O. K. Bouwsma at the University of Nebraska, then enrolled as a graduate student at Harvard University in 1933. At Cambridge University in 1938–9, he met G. E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Malcolm attended Wittgenstein's lectures on the philosophical foundations of mathematics throughout 1939 and remained one of Wittgenstein's closest friends. Malcolm's memoir of his time with Wittgenstein, published in 1958, is widely acclaimed as one of the most captivating and most accurate portraits of Wittgenstein's remarkable personality. After serving in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1945, Malcolm, with his wife, Leonida, and their son, Raymond Charles Malcolm, resided in Cambridge again in 1946–47. He saw a good deal of Wittgenstein during that time, and they continued to correspond frequently thereafter. In 1947, Malc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 In Philosophy
1990 in philosophy Events Publications * Giorgio Agamben, '' The Coming Community'' (published in Italian as ''La comunità che viene'' in 1990; English translation: 1993) * Ray Kurzweil, '' The Age of Intelligent Machines'' (1990) * Judith Butler, '' Gender Trouble'' (1990) * Jonathan Lear, '' Love and Its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis'' (1990) Deaths * January 26 - Lewis Mumford (born 1895) * August 1 - Norbert Elias (born 1897) * August 4 - Norman Malcolm (born 1911) * August 18 - B. F. Skinner (born 1904) * October 22 - Louis Althusser (born 1918) * November 24 - Keiji Nishitani (born 1900) References {{Reflist Philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ... 20th century in philosophy Philosophy by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1911
A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * January 3 ** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 Moment magnitude scale, moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people. ** Siege of Sidney Street in London: Two Latvian people, Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. Home Secretary Winston Churchill arrives to oversee events. * January 5 – Egypt's Zamalek SC is founded as a general sports and Association football club by Belgian lawyer George Merzbach as Qasr El Nile Club. * January 14 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall, on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. * January 18 – Eugene B. El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20th-century Philosophy
Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the early 20th century with the increasing professionalization of the discipline and the rise of Analytic philosophy, analytic and continental philosophy. The phrase "contemporary philosophy" is a piece of technical terminology in philosophy that refers to a specific period in the history of Western philosophy (namely the philosophy of the 20th and 21st centuries). However, the phrase is often confused with modern philosophy (which refers to an earlier period in Western philosophy), postmodern philosophy (which refers to some philosophers' criticisms of modern philosophy), and with a non-technical use of the phrase referring to any recent philosophic work. Professionalization Process Professionalization is the social process by which any trade or occupation establishes the group Norm (sociology), norms of conduct, acceptable wikt:qualification, qualifications for membership of the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
