Robert Nozick (/ˈnoʊzɪk/; November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at...

pleasure machine is a thought experiment put forward by philosopher Robert Nozick in his 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia. It is an attempt to refute...

State, and Utopia is a 1974 book by the American political philosopher Robert Nozick. It won the 1975 US National Book Award in category Philosophy and Religion...

organized from scratch in fair agreements. Rawls' Harvard colleague Robert Nozick countered the liberal A Theory of Justice with the libertarian Anarchy...

20th century and contemporary libertarians include Robert Kane, Peter van Inwagen and Robert Nozick. The first recorded use of the term libertarianism...

instrumental reason with oppression. Harvard professors John Rawls and Robert Nozick, globally recognised as expert practitioners of value rationality, produced...

named Fairness, Rawls is menaced by villainous libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick and his lover Ayn Rand, who plot to stop Rawls writing his redistributionist...

"conclusive reasons", revived by Robert Nozick as what he called the subjunctive or truth-tracking account. Nozick's formulation posits that proposition...

The Atlantic. Feser, Edward (4 May 2005). "Nozick, Robert". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Nozick, Robert (1974). Anarchy, state, and utopia. New York:...

Karl Popper, Kant and Aristotle.[page needed] In his book Invariances, Robert Nozick expresses a complex set of theories about the absolute and the relative...

ethics created by philosopher Robert Nozick in 1974 as a criticism of utilitarianism. A hypothetical being, which Nozick calls the utility monster, receives...

by Robert Nozick in chapters 7 and 8 of his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia. The theory is Nozick's attempt to describe "justice in holdings" (Nozick 1974:150)—or...

Laboratory. However, it was first analyzed in a philosophy paper by Robert Nozick in 1969 and appeared in the March 1973 issue of Scientific American...

or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over". In the 1970s, Robert Nozick was responsible for popularizing this usage of the term in academic...

laissez-faire capitalism such as Murray Rothbard's anarcho-capitalism and Robert Nozick's minarchism. Right-libertarianism has been described as combining individual...

generally regarded as intuitive, philosophers such as Fred Dretske and Robert Nozick in Philosophical Explanations have argued against it. In his book Fact...

left-libertarians. A night-watchman state has also been popularized by Robert Nozick in Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974). The United Kingdom in the 19th...

metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical treatise by the philosopher Robert Nozick. The book received positive reviews. Commentators have compared Philosophical...

justice. Some literature: Development as Freedom The Argumentative Indian Robert Nozick (United States, 1938–2002) was a libertarian (or minarchist). He advocated...

interpreters have debated the content of his political philosophy. Robert Nozick: Criticized Rawls, and argued for libertarianism, by appeal to a hypothetical...

subjective theory of value; the libertarianism developed in the 1970s by Robert Nozick and founded in American and European classical liberal traditions; and...

Christopher Grau, Douglas Maclean, Roger Scruton, Thomas Wells, and Robert Nozick have criticized the term or elements of it. Buffon, a French naturalist...

character Deadpool Robert Nozick, American philosopher and writer Robert Evans Peterson (1812-1894), American book publisher and writer Robert Rozhdestvensky...

is a 1989 collection of philosophical meditations by the philosopher Robert Nozick. The book drew a number of critical reactions. The work is drawn partially...

no economic necessity for repression of countering it". Libertarian Robert Nozick argues that a competitive legal system would evolve toward a monopoly...

Socratic Puzzles is a 1997 collection of essays by the philosopher Robert Nozick. Nozick disclaims the title "political philosopher" and characterizes his...

2001 book by American philosopher Robert Nozick, his last book before his death in 2002. In the introduction, Nozick assumes "orthodox quantum mechanics"...

reductionism limits our understanding of complex systems. In particular, ecologist Robert Ulanowicz says that science must develop techniques to study ways in which...

City Subway, William Barclay Parsons; philosophers Irwin Edman and Robert Nozick; economist Milton Friedman; psychologist Harriet Babcock; archaeologist...

alleged cosmetic was a preparation of arsenic, used by their wives. Robert Nozick references "manna from heaven" in a thought experiment about distributive...