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
Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization
Lionel Trilling, Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture
Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty
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
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)
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