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...Robert Nozick, a renowned Harvard thinker who challenged the welfare state in an influential work that defended Libertarian ideas, died Jan. 23 in Cambridge, after a seven-year battle with stomach cancer...
...Nozick came to Harvard as a professor of philosophy in 1970 and was named a University professor, Harvard’s most prestigious professorial post...
...Nozick was best known for the critique of the welfare state that he offered in his first book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Published in 1974, the work remains highly influential in the ongoing debate on the merits of the welfare system. Nozick argued that the size of the state should be as small as possible, favoring Libertarian policies that do not interfere with individual rights...
Anarchy, State, and Utopia was widely influential in the fields of philosophy and political science, as well as having a broad popular appeal. The book, praised for both its thorough argumentation and its accessible writing style, won Nozick a National Book Award...
Born in Brooklyn in 1938, Nozick studied analytic philosophy as an undergraduate at Columbia University. Later at Princeton he pursued graduate work in analytic philosophy, a field that tries to understand the relation between linguistic statements and the real-world subjects they define...