Author: Robert Nozick
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 063119780X
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age ---- liberal, socialist and conservative.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Author: Robert Nozick
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 063119780X
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age ---- liberal, socialist and conservative.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 063119780X
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age ---- liberal, socialist and conservative.
Philosophical Explanations
Author: Robert Nozick
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674664791
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Nozick develops new views on philosophy’s central topics and weaves them into a unified perspective. He ranges widely over philosophy’s fundamental concerns: the identity of the self, knowledge and skepticism, free will, the question of why there is something rather than nothing, the foundations of ethics, the meaning of life.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674664791
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Nozick develops new views on philosophy’s central topics and weaves them into a unified perspective. He ranges widely over philosophy’s fundamental concerns: the identity of the self, knowledge and skepticism, free will, the question of why there is something rather than nothing, the foundations of ethics, the meaning of life.
Robert Nozick
Author: Jonathan Wolff
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745680437
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia is one of the works which dominates contemporary debate in political philosophy. Drawing on traditional assumptions associated with individualism and libertarianism, Nozick mounts a powerful argument for a minimal `nightwatchman' state and challenges the views of many contemporary philosophers, most notably John Rawls. Jonathan Wolff's new book is the first full-length study of Nozick's work and of the debates to which it has given rise. He situates Nozick's work in the context of current debates and examines the traditions which have influenced his thought. He then critically reconstructs the key arguments of Anarchy, State and Utopia, focusing on Nozick's Doctrine of Rights, his Derivation of the Minimal State, and his Entitlement Theory of Justice. The book concludes by assessing Nozick's place in contemporary political philosophy.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745680437
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia is one of the works which dominates contemporary debate in political philosophy. Drawing on traditional assumptions associated with individualism and libertarianism, Nozick mounts a powerful argument for a minimal `nightwatchman' state and challenges the views of many contemporary philosophers, most notably John Rawls. Jonathan Wolff's new book is the first full-length study of Nozick's work and of the debates to which it has given rise. He situates Nozick's work in the context of current debates and examines the traditions which have influenced his thought. He then critically reconstructs the key arguments of Anarchy, State and Utopia, focusing on Nozick's Doctrine of Rights, his Derivation of the Minimal State, and his Entitlement Theory of Justice. The book concludes by assessing Nozick's place in contemporary political philosophy.
Examined Life
Author: Robert Nozick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671725017
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
An exploration of topics of everyday importance in the Socratic tradition.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671725017
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
An exploration of topics of everyday importance in the Socratic tradition.
Socratic Puzzles
Author: Robert Nozick
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674816534
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
One of the foremost philosophers of our time, Robert Nozick continues the Socratic tradition of investigation. This volume, which illustrates the originality, force, and scope of his work, also displays Nozick's trademark blending of extraordinary analytical rigor with intellectual playfulness. As such, Socratic Puzzles testifies to the great pleasure that both doing and reading philosophy can be. Comprising essays and philosophical fictions, classics and new work, the book ranges from Socrates to W. V. Quine, from the implications of an Israeli kibbutz to the flawed arguments of Ayn Rand. Nozick considers the figure of Socrates himself as well as the Socratic method (why is it a "method" of getting at the truth?). Many of these essays bring classic methods to bear on new questions about choice. How should you choose in a disconcerting situation ("Newcomb's Problem") when your decisions are completely predictable? Why do threats and not offers typically coerce our choices? How do we make moral judgments when we realize that our moral principles have exceptions? Other essays present new approaches to familiar intellectual puzzles, from the stress on simplicity in scientific hypotheses to the tendency of intellectuals to oppose capitalism. As up to date as the latest reflections on animal rights; as perennial as the essentials of aesthetic merit (doggerel by Isaac Newton goes to prove that changing our view of the world won't suffice); as whimsical as a look at how some philosophical problems might appear from God's point of view: these essays attest to the timeliness and timelessness of Nozick's thinking. With a personal introduction, in which Nozick discusses the origins, tools, and themes of his work, Socratic Puzzles demonstrates how philosophy can constitute a way of life.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674816534
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
One of the foremost philosophers of our time, Robert Nozick continues the Socratic tradition of investigation. This volume, which illustrates the originality, force, and scope of his work, also displays Nozick's trademark blending of extraordinary analytical rigor with intellectual playfulness. As such, Socratic Puzzles testifies to the great pleasure that both doing and reading philosophy can be. Comprising essays and philosophical fictions, classics and new work, the book ranges from Socrates to W. V. Quine, from the implications of an Israeli kibbutz to the flawed arguments of Ayn Rand. Nozick considers the figure of Socrates himself as well as the Socratic method (why is it a "method" of getting at the truth?). Many of these essays bring classic methods to bear on new questions about choice. How should you choose in a disconcerting situation ("Newcomb's Problem") when your decisions are completely predictable? Why do threats and not offers typically coerce our choices? How do we make moral judgments when we realize that our moral principles have exceptions? Other essays present new approaches to familiar intellectual puzzles, from the stress on simplicity in scientific hypotheses to the tendency of intellectuals to oppose capitalism. As up to date as the latest reflections on animal rights; as perennial as the essentials of aesthetic merit (doggerel by Isaac Newton goes to prove that changing our view of the world won't suffice); as whimsical as a look at how some philosophical problems might appear from God's point of view: these essays attest to the timeliness and timelessness of Nozick's thinking. With a personal introduction, in which Nozick discusses the origins, tools, and themes of his work, Socratic Puzzles demonstrates how philosophy can constitute a way of life.
Invariances
Author: Robert Nozick
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674006317
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Casting cultural controversies in a whole new light, an eminent philosopher presents bold, new theories that take into account scientific advances in physics, evolutionary biology, economics, and cognitive neurosience.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674006317
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Casting cultural controversies in a whole new light, an eminent philosopher presents bold, new theories that take into account scientific advances in physics, evolutionary biology, economics, and cognitive neurosience.
Robert Nozick
Author: David Schmidtz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521006712
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A 2002 introductory volume to Robert Nozick in a new series, Contemporary Philosophy in Focus.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521006712
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
A 2002 introductory volume to Robert Nozick in a new series, Contemporary Philosophy in Focus.
The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Author: Ralf M. Bader
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521197767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This Companion presents a detailed assessment of Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia and analyses its contribution to political philosophy.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521197767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This Companion presents a detailed assessment of Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia and analyses its contribution to political philosophy.
A Theory of Justice
Author: John RAWLS
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674042603
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674042603
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.
The Nature of Rationality
Author: Robert Nozick
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691020965
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
The award-winning author of Anarchy, State, and Utopia continues his search for the connections between philosophy and "ordinary" experience and shows how principles function in our day-to-day thinking and in our efforts to live peacefully and productively with each other.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691020965
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
The award-winning author of Anarchy, State, and Utopia continues his search for the connections between philosophy and "ordinary" experience and shows how principles function in our day-to-day thinking and in our efforts to live peacefully and productively with each other.