1998 in philosophy

List of years in philosophy

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1998 in philosophy

Events

The Indian philosopher and economist Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his contributions to welfare economics".^[1]

Publications

Heinz von Foerster and Bernhard Pörksen, Wahrheit ist die Erfindung eines Lügners: Gespräche für Skeptiker (published in German in 1998; not yet published in English)
John Searle, Mind, Language and Society: Philosophy in the Real World (1998)
Alan Gewirth, Self-Fulfillment (1998)
Alessandro Ferrara, Reflective Authenticity: Rethinking the Project of Modernity (1998)
Robert Audi, Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge (1998)
T. M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other (1998)

Deaths

February 17 - Ernst Jünger (born 1895)
March 3 - Marc Sautet (born 1947)
April 21 - Jean-François Lyotard (born 1924)

References

^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 19 January 2013.