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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...
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  • 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...
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  • organized from scratch in fair agreements. Rawls' Harvard colleague Robert Nozick countered the liberal A Theory of Justice with the libertarian Anarchy...
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    Anarchy, State, and Utopia (category Books by Robert Nozick)
    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...
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    century and contemporary libertarians include Robert Kane, Geert Keil, Peter van Inwagen and Robert Nozick. The first recorded use of the term libertarianism...
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  • instrumental reason with oppression. Harvard professors John Rawls and Robert Nozick, globally recognised as expert practitioners of value rationality, produced...
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  • named Fairness, Rawls is menaced by villainous libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick and his lover Ayn Rand, who plot to stop Rawls writing his redistributionist...
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  • 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...
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  • "conclusive reasons", revived by Robert Nozick as what he called the subjunctive or truth-tracking account. Nozick's formulation posits that proposition...
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  • Entitlement theory (category Philosophy of Robert Nozick)
    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...
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