Rare Robert Nozick interview
To mark the birth of Robert Nozick here is a rare interview I came across: it begins at 3:25. Michael TomsPhilosophyRobert Nozick
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The Jews and Capitalism
The always provocative Walter Block’s rumination from a few years back in Psychology Today on a species of what I term the “dhimmi” Jew. This is also related to what Gad Saad has termed as Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome. Bosch FawstincapitalismFriedrich HayekJewsOstrich Parasitic Syndromeregressive leftRobert Nozickwalter block
Formal and computational model of Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand
Recent paper in IEEE Adam Smithcomputational intelligenceemergent orderinvisible handNeural NetworksoptimizationParticle SwarmRobert NozickSpontaneous orderTuring test
Anarchy, State, and Utopia: Critical Exposition
Below is an extract (the first section of Chapter 2) of Ralf Bader’s most excellent and crisp Robert Nozick (pp. 10-14). Famously, Nozick begins his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia with the claim: ‘Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights)’ (p. ix). This claim…
Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism?
Still on Nozick and perhaps somewhat of a companion piece to Williams’ essay On Hating and Despising Philosophy. Though this Nozick essay is very well-known engagement with it tends to be primarily in the service of ideological cherry-pickers or scornful silence from its targets. Originally published in Cato Policy Report January/February 1998 and reprinted with some amendments…
Nozick and Feuerbach on Eating
As improbable a pairing as one can find, Nozick’s essay reminded me of Feuerbach’s The Essence of Christianity (see extract after Nozick). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robert Nozick "The Holiness of Everyday Life" in The Examined Life (1989, chapter 6, pp. 55-60). EACH AND EVERY portion of reality, the Transcendentalists said, when viewed and experienced properly, stands for and…
Nozick’s last interview?
Julian Sanchez interviews the great man. And in the spring, I’m giving a course jointly with a professor in the Slavic Languages department on Dostoyevsky and his philosophical ideas, and the difference that is made when philosophical ideas are presented in works of fiction rather than in discursive prose. It’s the difference between people who…
Nozick interview
It’s rather surprising that one can’t find any video or audio of Nozick. I did however come across this frank interview given towards the end of his life. Anarchy State and UtopiaChristine KorsgaardconsciousnessEdmund BurkeEpistemologyFriedrich HayekJohn RawlsJustice as FairnessNozickPhilosophyPhilosophy of mindPolitical philosophyRobert Nozickthomas nagel
Oakeshott on Civil Association
A trailer from Noel O’Sullivan‘s essay. The distinctive achievement of Western political thought since the seventeenth century is the ideal of the limited state. Despite extensive theorizing about this ideal, however, there has always been profound disagreement about its precise nature and implications. The full extent of this disagreement has been especially evident during the…
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