1951 in philosophy

Events

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
• Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
• Karl Huber, Leibniz
• Marshall McLuhan,
• 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
• January 7 - René Guénon
• April 4 - Sadegh Hedayat
• April 29 - Ludwig Wittgenstein