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?
• Tim Berners-Lee, ''Weaving the Web''

Deaths

• February 8 - Iris Murdoch
• June 20 - Clifton Fadiman