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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

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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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Average rating: 3.66 · 1,038 ratings · 75 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Anarchy, State, and Utopia 3.64 avg rating — 826 ratings — published 1974 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations 3.73 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Philosophical Explanations 3.88 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Nature of Rationality 3.35 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Socratic Puzzles 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Anākī Kokka Yūtopia: Kokka No Seitōsei To Sono Genkai by Robert Nozick, 嶋津格 (翻訳) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	The Normative Theory Of Individual Choice 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Reading Nozick: Essays on Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Jeffrey Paul, Robert Nozick 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	My rating:
	Japan's Economic Ascent: International Trade, Growth, and Postwar Reconstruction by Michael Smitka (Editor), Robert Nozick 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998	My rating:

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