title: 1951 in philosophy
text: # 1951 in philosophy
  
  1951 in philosophy
  
  ## 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, The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man
  * 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 (born 1899)
  * January 7 - René Guénon (born 1886)
  * April 4 - Sadegh Hedayat (born 1903)
  * April 29 - Ludwig Wittgenstein (born 1889)
  