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Robert Nozick
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Robert Nozick 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.
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Birth
1938
Death
2002
First book
1974
Years writing
52
Robert Nozick was an influential American philosopher who held the prestigious Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University.
His most famous work, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, became a fundamental libertarian response to John Rawls' theories of justice.
Throughout his prolific career, Nozick explored a vast range of topics including ethics, decision theory, metaphysics, and epistemology.
In his book Philosophical Explanations, the author developed an innovative counterfactual theory of knowledge that became a milestone in contemporary thought.
Before his death in 2002, he published Invariances, a work in which he introduced his own theory of evolutionary cosmology.