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Robert Nozick and "Newcomb's Problem."

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Robert Nozick, who died last week, was famous as the author of Anarchy, State, and Utopia. This philosophical defense of the minimal state, published...

Egghead Thinking Inside the Boxes “Newcomb’s Problem” still flummoxes the great philosophers. Feb 01, 200211:16 AM Robert Nozick, who died last week, was famous as the author of Anarchy, State, and Utopia. This philosophical defense of the minimal state, published in 1974, resonated with libertarian types everywhere and became something of a bible for many Warsaw bloc dissidents. But Nozick never thought of himself as a political philosopher. Anarchy, State, and Utopia, he claimed, was an “accident.” (He was prodded to write it by the appearance of his Harvard colleague John Rawls’ book…

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