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...Robert Nozick, professor of Philosophy and faculty adviser to the Sons of Liberty, said yesterday that "it would be desirable to give more exposure to well-developed alternatives to mainstream economic theories" other than Marxian ones...
...documentary called Primate last year it caused a lot of controversy in the science world. Without commentary, it showed how animals were treated in labs (i.e., cruelly). Scientists were outraged that their research should be called into question in such an irresponsible way and Harvard philosophy professor Robert Nozick said, "What about the animals?" Wiseman said the film was meant to show what could happen to human subjects in a world of unfettered scientific research. (And CIA-sponsored investigations into hallucenogenic drugs seems to confirm those fears). Here again, there is no commentary, and heavy exchanges between clients and welfare...
...almost the opposite extreme is Robert Nozick, professor of Philosophy, who says he favors a "relatively specific" core curriculum, with particular courses that all students must take, including a battery of offerings on western civilization...
Soul and Psyche. Other winners: in history, Bernard Bailyn's The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson, a study of the Royal Governor of Massachusetts on the eve of the American Revolution; in philosophy, Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia, a disquisition upon just how and why that government is best which governs least. In poetry, Marilyn Hacker's Presentation Piece; in biography, Richard B. Sewall's The Life of Emily Dickinson; in children's books, Virginia Hamilton's M.C. Higgins, the Great, a story about growing up black in the Cumberland Mountains. Science...
...question is whether we should try a more libertarian free market or a socialist centrally controlled economy. Seen against this background. Nozick's book is a powerful, unequivocal addition to the argument for the former. His position suggests the free market solution would not only be efficient, but also just...