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)