Philosophy:1999 in philosophy
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1999 in philosophy
Events
- John Rawls was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences "for his book "A Theory of Justice", which has constituted a renewal of normative ethics and political philosophy and has in an essential way contributed to the methodology for normative ethics."[1]
Publications
- Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What? (1999)
- Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web (1999)
Deaths
- February 8 - Iris Murdoch (born 1919)
- June 20 - Clifton Fadiman (born 1904)
References
- ↑ "John Rawls". The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. http://www.kva.se/en/Prizes/Prize-winner-page/?laureateId=380. Retrieved 4 March 2013.