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."

Publications

• Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What? (1999)
• Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web (1999)

Deaths

• Iris Murdoch (8 February)
• Clifton Fadiman (20 June)