Robert Nozick
Born in 1938
Philosophy
Politics
Robert Nozick was an American philosopher and Harvard professor known for his work in political philosophy.
Born in Brooklyn to Russian Jewish immigrants, he studied at Columbia, Princeton, and Oxford.
Nozick's most influential work, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), presented a libertarian response to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice.
He also contributed to decision theory and epistemology.
Nozick's ideas on minimal government and individual rights made him a prominent figure in political philosophy during the 1970s and 1980s.
He married poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg and passed away in 2002 after battling cancer.
Nozick is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
