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Title: Invariances : The Structure of the Objective World by Robert Nozick ISBN: 0-674-01245-3 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Philosophy is Back
Comment: Philosophy has been under severe challenge from science, literally eating up its provinces: philosophy of mind went to neuroscience; philosophy of language to Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science,etc. This book shows that there is a need for someone to just specialize in the TRUTH, its scructure, its accessibility, its INVARIANCE.
Aside from the purely philosophical answers that scientists were grappling with, the book is like a manual for a new regimen in philosophy. It reviews everything from epistemology to the logic of contingency, with insights here and there about such topics as the observer biases (about computing probabilities when our existence has been linked to a particular realization of the process).
I am not a philosopher but a probabilist; I found that this book just spoke to me. It certainly rid me of my prejudice against modern philosophers.
Rating: 4
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Comment: Reading this book is like being forced to talk to a crazy person in a room with no windows for several days strait. Not to say that it is not a good book and presents complex yet troubling ideas in a clear fashion.
Rating: 4
Summary: In Memoriam
Comment: This is a fine book by an important veteran philosopher. It's Nozick's last published book before his unfortunate death.
I also recommend: Williams, Truth and Truthfulness; Krausz, Relativism; Nagel, Last Word; Nozick, Philosophical Explanations; and Putnam, Realism with a Human Face; Searle, Social Construction; Searle, Rediscovery...Mind; Dummett, Logical Basis....
Chapter One is on truth and relativism. Nozick situates truth in space-time and discusses objective facts (and the attractions of a correspondence theory of truth). Chapter Two extends his discussion on objective facts; he brings in the philosophy of science. Chapter Three discusses modality (necessity and contingency), and the most interesting material here is on mathematical and logical necessity (see Dummett, Putnam, and Stroud). Chapter Four is on consciousness and the mind-body problem (compare with Searle, Chalmers, and McGinn). Chapter Five is a discussion on normative ethics.
I highly recommend this book. It is often quite clear and rigorous in parts.
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Title: The Nature of Rationality by Robert Nozick ISBN: 0691020965 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 29 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Philosophical Explanations by Robert Nozick ISBN: 0674664795 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1983 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: EXAMINED LIFE by Robert Nozick ISBN: 0671725017 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 15 December, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Socratic Puzzles by Robert Nozick ISBN: 0674816544 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $23.50 |
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Title: Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick ISBN: 0465097200 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: October, 1977 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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