Nozick, Robert, 1938-2002

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.

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