About this title: Robert Nozick, Harvard Professor of Philosophy, explores the notions of objectivity and truth with a refreshing and open tone and ties these ideas to a normative ethics.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard 2001
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780674006317ISBN:0674006313
Description: ISBN 0674006313. Hardback. Very Good condition book in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No statement of later printing on copyright page. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780674006317ISBN:0674006313
Description: ISBN 0-674-00631-3. Hardback. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Very Good to Near Fine condition book in a Very Good to Near Fine condition dustjacket. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. read more
Description: Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World. By Robert Nozick, Hardcover, ISBN: 0674006313, Harvard Univ Press, 2001. 416pgs. HB/DJ fine/fine, 2 lbs (multiple copies) read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Belknap Pr
Date Published: 2003-09-01
ISBN-13:9780674012455ISBN:0674012453
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Belknap Press, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780674012455ISBN:0674012453
Description: New. 0674012453. 432 pages. IMPORTANT: An extremely clean copy with no marks to the interior pages, no writing or underlining. Pages are intact and tight to the spine. From a review by Steve Fuller which appeared in ISR: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews: "Nozick's fundamental insight into the relationship between science and philosophy concerns their shared interest in explanation. For Nozick, `an explanation shows something to be less contingent than it otherwise appears' (p. 153). The ... read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Belknap Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780674012455ISBN:0674012453
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780674012455ISBN:0674012453
Description: New. Excerpts from Robert Nozick's Invariances Necessary truths are invariant across all possible worlds, contingent ones across only some. No wonder necessity lures philosophers. It is the flame, the philosopher the moth. Our intuitions that certain stat... read more
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"Nozick's final book before dying of cancer. "A series of philosophical forays" into: truth & relativism, invariance & objectivity, necessity & contingency ("lack of invention is the mother of necessity"), the realm of consciousness, and the genealogy of ethics.
The first line: "Philosophy begins in wonder". The final paragraph in his final book: "It is not possible (for us) to look at a child and know what the adult he will grow up to be will look like, yet we are able to look at an adult and see how he came to be from the child he was in the photograph we now see. So too, we can hope, even though we cannot picture the philosophers of the future, that, whatever substances they are made of and whatever beings they are descended from, and whatever new things they discover and whatever new questions thye pose and whatever complex interactions they stand in to alter their levels of consciousness and creation, they will be able to look back upon us and recognize us as kin. Philosophy begins in wonder. It never ends"."
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