Columbia University (BA) Princeton University (PhD) Oxford University
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20th-century philosophy
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Western philosophy
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Analytic Libertarianism
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Carl Gustav Hempel
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Political philosophy, ethics, epistemology
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Utility monster, experience machine, entitlement theory of justice, Nozick's Lockean proviso,[1] Wilt Chamberlain argument, paradox of deontology,[2] deductive closure, Nozick's four conditions on knowledge, rejection of the principle of epistemic closure
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Robert Nozick (/ˈnoʊzɪk/; November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University,[3] and was president of the American Philosophical Association. He is best known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), a libertarian answer to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971), in which Nozick proposes his minimal state as the only justifiable form of government. His later work Philosophical Explanations (1981) advanced notable epistemological claims, namely his counterfactual theory of knowledge. It won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Ralph Waldo Emerson Award the following year.
Nozick's other work involved ethics, decision theory, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology. His final work before his death, Invariances (2001), introduced his theory of evolutionary cosmology, by which he argues invariances, and hence objectivity itself, emerged through evolution across possible worlds.[4]
^Mack, Eric (May 30, 2019). "Robert Nozick's Political Philosophy". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University – via Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
^"How can a concern for the non-violation of C [i.e. some deontological constraint] lead to refusal to violate C even when this would prevent other more extensive violations of C?": Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia, Basic Books (1974), p. 30 as quoted by Ulrike Heuer, "Paradox of Deontology, Revisited", in: Mark Timmons (ed.), Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics. Oxford University Press (2011).
^"Robert Nozick, 1938–2002". Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, November 2002: 76(2).
^Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Volume 1, edited by John R. Shook, Thoemmes Press, 2005, p.1838
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Karl Popper, Kant and Aristotle.[page needed] In his book Invariances, RobertNozick expresses a complex set of theories about the absolute and the relative...
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interpreters have debated the content of his political philosophy. RobertNozick: Criticized Rawls, and argued for libertarianism, by appeal to a hypothetical...
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Liberalism (1993), and other works. He also criticizes the philosopher RobertNozick, and his ideas as advanced in Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974). Liberalism...
" A Theory of Justice received criticism from several philosophers. RobertNozick criticized Rawls' account of distributive justice in his defense of...
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