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Robert Nozick: Harvard University
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Robert Nozick died of cancer Wednesday 23. January 2002, 63 years old. He had been ill several years, but worked close to the last breath, as a professor at Harvard University, USA. He visited Norway, and hold a lecture in 1993.
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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. He was 63.
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WHEN he was a graduate student at Princeton in the early 1960s, Robert Nozick was known as the visiting professor's ordeal. However deeply the eminent guest had thought through the counter-arguments and rejoinders, young Mr Nozick could be relied on to spot a hole in the defences and work away at it until the structure of argument lay in ruins. This love of the chase stayed with him after he had become an academic celebrity in his own right. He relished pointing out flaws in his own arguments. In lectures, no question was too weird or off the point for him not to run with it to see where it led. Brilliance, restlessness and a distrust of authority marked all he touched in a distinguished professorial career, mainly at Harvard University, where he seldom taught the same course twice.
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[Robert] Nozick was named Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University in 1998. "[He] came to Harvard from an assistant professorship at Princeton University in 1965. He served as an assistant professor [at Harvard] for two years and went to Rockefeller University in 1967 as an associate professor. He returned to Harvard at age 30 as a full professor of philosophy in 1969. He served as chair of the Philosophy Department from 1981 to 1984.
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Nozick was chair of the Harvard philosophy department from 1981–84. He became Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy in 1985 and in 1998 was named the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor. Nozick received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Council of Scholars of the Library of Congress, a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and a senior fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard. He served as the president of the American Philosophical Association’s Eastern Division from 1997–98, was a Christensen visiting fellow at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University, in 1997, and was a cultural adviser to the U.S. Delegation to the UNESCO Conference on World Cultural Policy in 1982. The American Psychological Association, presenting him with its 1998 Presidential Citation, called him “one of the most brilliant and original living philosophers.”
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Nozick obtained an A.B. degree from Columbia College in 1959, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton in 1961 and 1963, respectively. After stints at Princeton and the Rockefeller University, Nozick came to Harvard as a full professor in 1969, at the age of 30. He became Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy in 1985 and in 1998 was named the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor.
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