1938 - 2002
Robert Nozick (; November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University, and was president of the American Philosophical Association. He is best known for his books Philosophical Explanations (1981), which included his counterfactual theory of knowledge, and 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Nozick has received more than 877,373 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Robert Nozick is the 282nd most popular philosopher (up from 304th in 2019), the 685th most popular biography from United States (up from 692nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Philosopher.
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Among philosophers, Robert Nozick ranks 282 out of 1,089. Before him are François Fénelon, Johann Reuchlin, Rudolf Bultmann, Georges Sorel, Mazdak, and Huineng. After him are Abraham ibn Ezra, Jacobus Arminius, Prodicus, Ramana Maharshi, John Searle, and Anne Sullivan.
1651 - 1715
HPI: 72.93
Rank: 276
1455 - 1522
HPI: 72.87
Rank: 277
1884 - 1976
HPI: 72.87
Rank: 278
1847 - 1922
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 279
450 - 529
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 280
638 - 713
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 281
1938 - 2002
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 282
1089 - 1167
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 283
1560 - 1609
HPI: 72.72
Rank: 284
460 BC - 380 BC
HPI: 72.72
Rank: 285
1879 - 1950
HPI: 72.72
Rank: 286
1932 - Present
HPI: 72.63
Rank: 287
1866 - 1936
HPI: 72.59
Rank: 288
Among people born in 1938, Robert Nozick ranks 34. Before him are Kenny Rogers, Otto Rehhagel, Bounnhang Vorachith, Heinz Fischer, Donald Knuth, and Giorgetto Giugiaro. After him are Jean Giraud, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Rod Laver, Brian Dennehy, Diana Rigg, and Marina Vlady. Among people deceased in 2002, Robert Nozick ranks 21. Before him are Prince Claus of the Netherlands, James Coburn, Niki de Saint Phalle, Ivan Illich, Rod Steiger, and Camilo José Cela. After him are James Tobin, Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Fritz Walter, Linda Lovelace, Edsger W. Dijkstra, and Alexander Prokhorov.
1938 - 2020
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 28
1938 - Present
HPI: 73.30
Rank: 29
1938 - Present
HPI: 73.20
Rank: 30
1938 - Present
HPI: 72.90
Rank: 31
1938 - Present
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 32
1938 - Present
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 33
1938 - 2002
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 34
1938 - 2012
HPI: 72.70
Rank: 35
1938 - Present
HPI: 72.65
Rank: 36
1938 - Present
HPI: 72.57
Rank: 37
1938 - 2020
HPI: 72.34
Rank: 38
1938 - 2020
HPI: 72.09
Rank: 39
1938 - Present
HPI: 71.99
Rank: 40
1926 - 2002
HPI: 74.87
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1928 - 2002
HPI: 74.80
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1930 - 2002
HPI: 74.69
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1926 - 2002
HPI: 74.29
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1925 - 2002
HPI: 73.84
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1916 - 2002
HPI: 72.83
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1938 - 2002
HPI: 72.82
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1918 - 2002
HPI: 72.65
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1939 - 2002
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1920 - 2002
HPI: 72.46
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1949 - 2002
HPI: 71.97
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1930 - 2002
HPI: 71.96
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1916 - 2002
HPI: 71.89
Rank: 27
Among people born in United States, Robert Nozick ranks 685 out of 15,968. Before him are Anne Bancroft (1931), John Cassavetes (1929), Ritchie Valens (1941), Kenneth Arrow (1921), John Irving (1942), and Gene Wilder (1933). After him are Theodore William Richards (1868), Billy Graham (1918), Jonas Salk (1914), H. H. Holmes (1861), Francis Fukuyama (1952), and John Goodman (1952).
1931 - 2005
HPI: 72.85
Rank: 679
1929 - 1989
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 680
1941 - 1959
HPI: 72.84
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1921 - 2017
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1942 - Present
HPI: 72.83
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1933 - 2016
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 684
1938 - 2002
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 685
1868 - 1928
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 686
1918 - 2018
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 687
1914 - 1995
HPI: 72.81
Rank: 688
1861 - 1896
HPI: 72.79
Rank: 689
1952 - Present
HPI: 72.76
Rank: 690
1952 - Present
HPI: 72.76
Rank: 691
Among philosophers born in United States, Robert Nozick ranks 3. Before him are John Rawls (1921) and George Herbert Mead (1863). After him are John Searle (1932), Anne Sullivan (1866), Hilary Putnam (1926), Judith Butler (1956), Ronald Dworkin (1931), Richard Rorty (1931), Daniel Dennett (1942), Willard Van Orman Quine (1908), and Nelson Goodman (1906).
1921 - 2002
HPI: 79.13
Rank: 1
1863 - 1931
HPI: 76.61
Rank: 2
1938 - 2002
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 3
1932 - Present
HPI: 72.63
Rank: 4
1866 - 1936
HPI: 72.59
Rank: 5
1926 - 2016
HPI: 72.20
Rank: 6
1956 - Present
HPI: 71.09
Rank: 7
1931 - 2013
HPI: 71.00
Rank: 8
1931 - 2007
HPI: 70.97
Rank: 9
1942 - Present
HPI: 70.13
Rank: 10
1908 - 2000
HPI: 69.80
Rank: 11
1906 - 1998
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 12