He was then educated at Columbia College, Columbia University ( A.B. Nozick attended the public schools in Brooklyn. His mother was born Sophie Cohen, and his father was a Jew from a Russian shtetl who had been born with the name Cohen and who ran a small business. Nozick was born in Brooklyn to a family of Jewish descent. 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. His other work involved ethics, decision theory, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology. He is best known for his books 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, and Philosophical Explanations (1981), which included his counterfactual theory of knowledge. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University, and was president of the American Philosophical Association. Robert Nozick ( / ˈ n oʊ z ɪ k/ November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher.
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