Ad
related to: robert nozick beliefs on religion and ethics
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Robert Nozick (/ ˈ n oʊ z ɪ k /; 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 .
Philosophical Explanations is a 1981 metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical treatise by the philosopher Robert Nozick.. The book received positive reviews. Commentators have compared Philosophical Explanations to the philosopher Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979) and praised it for Nozick's discussions of the fundamental questions of philosophy and of topics such as ...
"Anarchy, State, and Robert Nozick". Mises Daily. A distillation of Jonathan Wolff's criticisms of Nozick "The Squirrel and the State" – A Criticism of Nozick's Argument for the State by Nicolás Maloberti (The Independent Review 14.3, 2010) (subscription required) Robert Nozick's Political Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Nozick identifies three strands to the notion of an objective fact/truth. It is accessible from different angles. There can be intersubjective agreement about it. It holds independently of people's beliefs, desires, observations, measurements. More fundamental than these three is invariance: An objective fact is invariant under various ...
The experience machine or pleasure machine is a thought experiment put forward by philosopher Robert Nozick in his 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia. [1] It is an attempt to refute ethical hedonism by imagining a choice between everyday reality and an apparently preferable simulated reality.
The Examined Life is a 1989 collection of philosophical meditations by the philosopher Robert Nozick. [1] The book drew a number of critical reactions. The work is drawn partially as a response to Socrates assertion in Plato's "The Apology of Socrates" that the unexamined life is one not worth living [2] [3]
A young philosopher goes from socialist to reluctant libertarian.
Socratic Puzzles is a 1997 collection of essays by the philosopher Robert Nozick ... and also extended decision theory to issues about rational belief. ...