Word: nozick
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Other departments this year heard from professors who saw no reason to leave their current posts to come here. Allan F. Gibbard, a University of Michigan philosopher, turned down a tenure, offer because of a "comfortable family situation," according to Department Chairman Robert Nozick, Mark Griffith, a classics scholar at Berkeley, rejected tenure at Harvard, explaining, "I like it here very much...
Ranging from fiction by Harvard philosopher Rober Nozick to science fiction by the Polish master Stainslaw Lem, the chapters provide an informative, though cursory, survey of thoughts on the brain. Mixed in are humorous digressions: a riddle that supposedly leaves thinkers catabolic (literally) and a brief parable of a man with no head. Often the pieces do not seem to interrelate, but the editors don't intend them to. Their only goal is to present ideas which will undermine the reader's complacent view of his own intellect...
Pogge said only two Harvard professors, Henry Goodman, professor of Philosophy Emeritus, and Robert Nozick, professor of Philosophy, refused to sign the petition...
...Nozick refused comment yesterday, and Goodman could not be reached for comment...