Liberty and Rights in Robert Nozick’s “Anarchy, State, and Utopia”
ABSTRACT
This conference examined Nozick's seminal text on the proper scope of government and individual liberty, along with critiques from a variety of perspectives both sympathetic and antagonistic to his project.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Paul, Jeffrey, eds. Reading Nozick: Essays on Anarchy, State, and Utopia, New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1981.
Schmidtz, David, eds. Robert Nozick. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Cohen, G. A. Self-ownership, Freedom, and Equality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Kukathas, Chandran. The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State, and Utopia. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1974.
Waldron, Jeremy, “Nozick and Locke: Filling the Space of Rights” In Natural Rights Liberalism from Locke to Nozick, edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, and Jeffrey Paul, 81-101. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.