1913 in philosophy

Events

• Foundation stone of First Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, was laid as a centre for the Anthroposophical Society by Rudolf Steiner (September 20).
• Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Publications

• Edmund Husserl, Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology (1913)^[1]
• Walther Rathenau, Zur Mechanik des Geistes (1913)^[2]
• Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital (1913)^[3]
• Max Scheler, Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values (1913-16, originally published in German as Der Formalismus in der Ethik und die materiale Wertethik)^[4]
• Niels Bohr, "On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules" (1913)^[5]
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, review of Peter Coffey's The Science of Logic (1913)^[6]

Births

• February 27 - Paul Ricœur (died 2005)
• March 3 - Roger Caillois (died 1978)
• September 25 - Norman O. Brown (died 2002)
• November 7 - Albert Camus (died 1960)

Deaths

• February 22 - Ferdinand de Saussure (born 1857)
• November 7 - Alfred Russel Wallace (born 1823)