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...some ways, I always prefer fantasy to the truth, because fantasy always pleases me and the truth doesn’t. On the other hand, there’s something delicious about getting your hands on a fact. Robert Nozick had a famous conundrum where he asked people, “If you could go inside a happiness machine and you’d experience a life of utter bliss, but you’d really be laying inside a machine with your brain all wired up, would you want to go into the machine?” I don?...
...sightings of Rudenstine on campus have been few and far between. He attended the October 2001 installation ceremony for his successor, University President Lawrence H. Summers, and was also spotted at memorial services for former Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 and former University Professor Robert Nozick. He last sat onstage in Tercentenary Theater in June 2002 when he received an honorary doctor of laws degree...
...used to teach a course with the late Stephen Jay Gould, former Agassiz professor of zoology and professor of geology, the late Robert Nozick, former University professor of philosophy, and, more recently, Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox. In Religion 1045, “Thinking About Thinking,” we explored the roles of science, religion, philosophy and law. Gould took the view that science and religion constituted separate and entirely different “magesteria”—science being empirical and value-free, while religion is faith-based and normative...
Okin’s work stressed that family could not be excluded from conceptions of justice. Throughout her career, Okin engaged and criticizing top theorists—including John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre, Robert Nozick and Michael Walzer—for neglecting to incorporate women into their theories...
Kamm will also reinforce the Department of Philosophy—which lost three professors last year, including Pellegrino University Professor Robert Nozick, who died of stomach cancer...