1998 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".{{cite web|title=The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1998|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1998/|publisher=Nobelprize.org|accessdate=19 January 2013}}
- The American philosopher Robert L. Holmes was appointed to the newly established Rajiv Gandhi Chair in Peace and Disarmament at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.{{Cite web |title=Currents--November 9, 1998 |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318193059/https://www.rochester.edu/currents/V26/V26N20/story1.html |access-date=2016-12-05 |website=www.rochester.edu}}
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)