1959 in philosophy

1959 in philosophy

Events

• Colin Murray Turbayne demonstrates in his publication "Berkeley's Two Concepts of Mind" that George Berkeley intended to transcend ontological idealism in order to embrass a more skeptical view of the presence of a universal substantial mind.

Publications

• Ernest Gellner, Words and Things (1959)
• C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures (1959)
• Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death (1959)
• P. F. Strawson, ' (1959)
• Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959)