1913 in philosophy
Events Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Foundation stone of First Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, was laid as a centre for the Anthroposophical Society by Rudolf Steiner (September 20).
Publications Edmund Husserl, Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology (1913) Walther Rathenau, Zur Mechanik des Geistes (1913) Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital (1913) 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) Niels Bohr, "On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules" (1913) Ludwig Wittgenstein, review of Peter Coffey's The Science of Logic (1913)
Births February 27 - Paul Ricœur (died 2005) March 3 - Roger Caillois (died 1978) September 25 - Norman O. Brown (died 2002) September 26 - Lewis White Beck (died 1997) November 7 - Albert Camus (died 1960)
Deaths February 22 - Ferdinand de Saussure (born 1857) November 7 - Alfred Russel Wallace (born 1823)
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