Robert Nozick
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Robert Nozick was an influential American political philosopher best known for developing a theory of individual rights and a minimal state that rejected most government intervention in people's lives. His ideas, particularly in his major work "Anarchy, State, and Utopia," shaped modern debates about the proper limits of government power and what individuals owe to each other in society.
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- 16 November 1938
- Died
- 23 January 2002
- Works
- 15
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- 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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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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