Robert Nozick

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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,[3] and was president of the American Philosophical Association. He is best known for his books Philosophical Explanations (1981), which included his counterfactual theory of knowledge, and 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. His 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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The Examined Life
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Anarchy, State, and Utopia
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Philosophical Explanations
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Puzzles Socraticos (Teorema Serie Mayor)
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Invariances
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The Emergence of Logical Empiricism : From 1900 to the Vienna Circle (Science and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Basic Works of Logical Empiricism)
Representative edition published 1996
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La Naturaleza De La Racionalidad
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Names and Nature in Plato's Cratylus
Representative edition published 2016
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The Nature of Rationality
Representative edition published 1993
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The normative theory of individual choice
Representative edition published 1990
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