Nozick, Robert, 1938-2002

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Robert Nozick (November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher. Nozick was born in Brooklyn to a family of Jewish descent. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1959, he married Barbara Fierer. They had two children, Emily and David. The Nozicks eventually divorced; Nozick later married the poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg.

Nozick held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University and was president of the American Philosophical Association. He is best known for his books 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, and Philosophical Explanations (1981), which included his counterfactual theory of knowledge.

Source: Wikipedia contributors, "Robert Nozick," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Nozick&oldid=1180166780 (accessed October 18, 2023).

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referencedIn Michael S. Mahoney papers., 1923-2008 University of Minnesota Libraries. Charles Babbage Institute.
referencedIn John Archibald Wheeler Papers, 1880-2008, 1880-2008 American Philosophical Society
referencedIn Books from the personal library of John Rawls, 1915-2002. Harvard University Archives.
creatorOf Robert Nozick papers Houghton Library
referencedIn Paul A. Freund papers Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138
referencedIn Papers of John Rawls, 1942-2003 and undated. Harvard University Archives.
referencedIn Kenneth J. Arrow Papers, 1939-2011 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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Death 2002-01-23

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