Robert Nozick Quotes
From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen.
Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Basic Books, 1974, p. 160.
In 1986 many scientists opposed the wisdom and feasibility of the administration's Strategic Arms Initiative. The director suggested that scientists who opposed government policies not be given government research grants. There was much protest about this seeming infringement of freedom of speech:
Robert Nozick 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.
