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October 3 -- CANCELLED

Robert Nozick
author of Invariances: The Structure Of The Objective World

To be introduced by Anthony Appiah, Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University.

Recent scientific advances have placed many traditional philosophical concepts under great stress. In this pathbreaking book, the eminent philosopher Rober Nozick rethinks and transforms the concepts of truth, objectivity, necessity, contingency, consciousness, and ethics. Using an original method, he presents bold new philosophical theories that take account of the scientific advances in physics, evolutionary biology, economics, and cognitive neuroscience, and casts current cultural controversies (such as whether all truth is relative and whether ethics is objective) in a wholly new light. Robert Nozick is Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University and the author of Socratic Puzzles and Philosophical Explanations. His book Anarchy, State, and Utopia received a National Book Award.

Other titles by Robert Nozick: Socratic Puzzles The Nature of Rationality The Examined Life Philosophical Explanations Anarchy, State and Utopia Other titles by Anthony Appiah: In My Father's House Identities Africana The Dictionary of Global Culture

Harvard University Press Sep 2001, hc $35.00

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