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Robert Nozick
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born
November 16, 1938
died
January 23, 2002
gender
male
genre
Philosophy, Politics
influences
Locke, Kant, Mill, Hayek
about this author
Robert Nozick was an American philosopher and professor at Harvard University. He was educated at Columbia (A.B. 1959, summa cum laude), where he studied with Sidney Morgenbesser, at Princeton (Ph.D. 1963), and Oxford as a Fulbright Scholar. He was a prominent American political philosopher in the 1970s and 1980s. He did additional but less influential work in such subjects as decision theory and epistemology. His Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) was a libertarian answer to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, published in 1971. He was born in Brooklyn, the son of a Jewish entrepreneur from Russia, and married the American poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg. Nozick died in 2002 after a prolonged struggle with cancer. His remains are interred at Moun...more
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Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick avg rating 3.69 — 216 ratings — published 1974 9 editions |
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Examined Life by Robert Nozick avg rating 3.79 — 53 ratings — published 1989 3 editions |
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Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick avg rating 4.00 — 29 ratings — published 1981 3 editions |
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The Nature of Rationality by Robert Nozick avg rating 3.15 — 13 ratings — published 1993 2 editions |
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Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World by Robert Nozick avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 2001 2 editions |
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Socratic Puzzles by Robert Nozick avg rating 3.17 — 6 ratings — published 1997 3 editions |
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Reading Nozick: Essays on Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Jeffrey Paul, Robert Nozick avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1981 |
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