Robert Nozick
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| - | ([[November 16]], [[1938]] – [[January 23]], [[2002]]) was an [[American philosopher]] and [[Joseph Pellegrino University Professor|Pellegrino University Professor]] at [[Harvard University]]. Nozick, schooled at [[Columbia University|Columbia]], [[Oxford University|Oxford]] and [[Princeton University|Princeton]], was a prominent American [[political philosophy|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]]' ''[[A Theory of Justice]]'', published in [[1971]]. He was born in Brooklyn, the son of a [[Jewish]] entrepreneur from [[Russia]]. He was married to the American poet [[Gjertrud Schnackenberg]]. Nozick died in [[2002]] after a prolonged struggle with [[cancer]]. His remains are interred at [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. | + | '''Robert Nozick''' (November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an [[American philosopher]] connected to [[Harvard University]]. |
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| + | He is best known for his books ''[[Philosophical Explanations]]'' (1981), which included his counterfactual theory of knowledge, and ''[[Anarchy, State, and Utopia]]'' (1974), a [[libertarianism|libertarian]] answer to [[John Rawls]]' ''[[A Theory of Justice]]'' (1971), in which Nozick also presented his own theory of utopia as one in which people can freely choose the rules of the society they enter into. His 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]]. | ||
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Robert Nozick (November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher connected to Harvard University.
He is best known for his books Philosophical Explanations (1981), which included his counterfactual theory of knowledge, and Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), a libertarian answer to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971), in which Nozick also presented his own theory of utopia as one in which people can freely choose the rules of the society they enter into. His 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.
