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Robert Nozick
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American political philosopher (1938–2002)
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Robert Nozick was an American philosopher, political scientist, and university teacher. He was born on November 16, 1938, and died on January 23, 2002, from stomach cancer in Cambridge. Nozick was educated at Princeton University and Columbia University and served as a faculty member at Harvard University. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His notable works include *Anarchy, State, and Utopia*, *The Nature of Rationality*, *The Examined Life*, and *Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus*. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Fulbright Scholarship, and the National Book Award. Nozick’s field of work encompassed political philosophy, libertarianism, and political theory. He was an agnostic who spoke English.
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- Born
- 16 November 1938
- Died
- 23 January 2002
- Works
- 15
Top works
- The Nature of Rationality
- The Examined Life
- Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus
- Anarchy, State, and Utopia
- The Emergence of Logical Empiricism : From 1900 to the Vienna Circle (Science and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Basic Works of Logical Empiricism)
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- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- political scientist
- Educated at
- Columbia University
- Employer
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- agnosticism
- Field of work
- political theory
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- Robert Nozick 1977 Libertarian Review cover.jpg
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- place of burial
- Mount Auburn Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1938-11-16
- date of death
- 2002-01-23
- cause of death
- stomach cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
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- Robert Nozick
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Nozick (/ˈnoʊzɪk/; November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University, 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 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.
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