title: 1955 in philosophy
text: # 1955 in philosophy
  
  1955 in philosophy
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Raymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals
  * J. L. Austin, How to Do Things With Words
  * Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (published posthumously)
  * Herman Dooyeweerd, A New Critique of Theoretical Thought
     * Volume II: The General Theory of Modal Spheres
     * Volume III: The Structures of Individuality of Temporal Reality
  * Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques
  * J. L. Mackie, "Evil and Omnipotence" (in Mind)
  * Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization
  * Paul Ricoeur, History and Truth
  * Lionel Trilling, Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture
  * Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty
  
  ## Births
  
  * June 8 - Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web
  * December 28 - Liu Xiaobo, Chinese literary critic and human rights activist
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 17 - L. P. Jacks, English philosopher (b. 1860)
  * April 10 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Jesuit theologian, philosopher and paleontologist (b. 1881)
  * April 18 - Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist (b. 1879)
  * September 30 - Louis Leon Thurstone, American pioneer of psychometrics and psychophysics (b. 1887)
  * October 18 - José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (b. 1883)
  