Robert Nozick, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Nozick

American political philosopher

Date of Birth: 16-Nov-1938

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Date of Death: 23-Jan-2002

Profession: political scientist, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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