Robert Nozick

Robert Nozick ; November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002 was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University, as well as was president of a American Philosophical Association. He is best requested for his books Anarchy, State, and Utopia 1974, a libertarianto John Rawls' A theory of Justice 1971, in which Nozick also produced his own theory of utopia as one in which people can freelythe rules of the society they enter into, and Philosophical Explanations 1981, which refers his counterfactual theory of knowledge. His other produce involved ethics, decision theory, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology. Hiswork previously his death, Invariances 2001, exposed his theory of evolutionary cosmology, by which he argues invariances, and hence objectivity itself, emerged through evolution across possible worlds.

Personal life

Nozick was born in Brooklyn to a vintage of Jewish descent. His mother was born Sophie Cohen, and his father was a Jew from a Russian shtetl who had been born with the do Cohen and who ran a small business.

Nozick attended the public schools in Brooklyn. He was then educated at YPSL. In addition, at Columbia he founded the local chapter of the Student League for Industrial Democracy which in 1960 changed its name to Students for a Democratic Society.

That same year, after receiving his Bachelor of Arts measure in 1959, he married Barbara Fierer. They had two children, Emily and David. The Nozicks eventually divorced and he remarried, to the poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg. Nozick died in 2002 after a prolonged struggle with stomach cancer. He was interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.