Socratic Puzzles

Robert Nozick

    Introduction

    Choice and Utility

    Coercion

    Newcomb's Problem and Two Principles of Choice

    Reflection's on Newcomb's

    Interpersonal Utility Theory

    On Austrian Methodology

    Philosophy and Methodology

    Socratic Puzzles

    Experience, Theory, and Language

    Simplicity as Fall-Out

    Invisible-Hand Explanations

    Ethics and Politics

    Moral Complications and Moral Structures

    On the Randian Argument

    Weighted Voting and "One-Man, One-Vote"

    Discussions and Reviews

    Goodman, Nelson, on Merit, Aesthetics

    Who Would Choose Socialism?

    Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism?

    The Characteristic Features of Extremism

    War, Terrorism, Reprisals--Drawing Some Moral Lines

    Do Animals Have Rights?

    Philosophical Fictions

    Fiction

    R.S.V.P.--A Story

    Testament

    Teleology

    Notes and References

    Credits

    Name Index

    Subject Index

  • Cover: Socratic Puzzles
  • A photo of the author

Robert Nozick was Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. His book Anarchy, State, and Utopia received a National Book Award.