1951 in philosophy

1951 in philosophy was a critical year for the publication of a number of important works.

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 (L'Homme révolté)
• Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
• Karl Huber (executed 1943), Leibniz
• Marshall McLuhan, '
• Hans Reichenbach, The Rise of Scientific Philosophy
• Willard Van Orman Quine, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," The Philosophical Review