Paul Thieme was awarded the 1988 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for "he added immensely to our knowledge of Vedic and other classical Indian literature and provided a solid foundation to the study of the history of Indian thought".
The Indian philosopher and writer Raja Rao was awarded the 1988 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
Ernst Mayr, Toward a New Philosophy of Biology (1988)
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (1988)
Hans Moravec, Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence (1988)
Jürgen Habermas, Postmetaphysical Thinking (1988)
Ye Shengtao (February 16)
Liang Shuming (June 23)
Hans Urs von Balthasar (June 26)
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