Editing Robert Nozick (section)

==Personal life==
Nozick was born in [[Brooklyn]] to a family of [[Jewish]] descent. His mother was born Sophie Cohen, and his father was a Jew from a Russian [[shtetl]] who had been born with the name Cohen and who ran a small business.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1382871/Professor-Robert-Nozick.html|title=Professor Robert Nozick|journal=Daily Telegraph|date=2002|access-date=August 1, 2018|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235|archive-date=August 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802011542/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1382871/Professor-Robert-Nozick.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Nozick attended the public schools in Brooklyn. He was then educated at [[Columbia University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|A.B.]] 1959, ''[[summa cum laude]]''), where he studied with [[Sidney Morgenbesser]]; [[Princeton University]] (PhD 1963) under [[Carl Hempel]]; and at [[Oxford University]] as a [[Fulbright Scholar]] (1963–1964).

At one point, Nozick joined the [[Young People's Socialist League (1907)|Young People's Socialist League]], and at [[Columbia University]] he founded the local chapter of the [[Student League for Industrial Democracy (1946-1959)|Student League for Industrial Democracy]]. He began to move away from socialist ideals when exposed to [[Friedrich Hayek]]'s ''[[The Constitution of Liberty]]'', claiming he "was pulled into libertarianism reluctantly" when he found himself unable to form satisfactory responses to libertarian arguments.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/interview-robert-nozick|title=An Interview with Robert Nozick|author=Albert Zlabinger|date=December 1, 1977|website=www.libertarianism.org|publisher=CATO Institute|access-date=December 12, 2023|quote=|archive-date=July 24, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724171509/https://www.libertarianism.org/publications/essays/interview-robert-nozick|url-status=live}}</ref> Nozick was initiated into the Alpha-Tau chapter of the [[Kappa Sigma Fraternity]] while at Columbia in 1956.

After receiving his undergraduate degree in 1959, he married Barbara Fierer. They had two children, Emily and David. The Nozicks eventually divorced; Nozick later married the poet [[Gjertrud Schnackenberg]].

Nozick died in 2002 after a prolonged struggle with [[stomach cancer]].<ref>For biographies, memorials, and obituaries see:
* {{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.iep.utm.edu/nozick/ |title=Robert Nozick (1938–2002) |encyclopedia=[[Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]] |first=Edward |last=Feser |date=May 4, 2005 |access-date=January 2, 2012 |archive-date=December 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210041935/http://www.iep.utm.edu/nozick/ |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |title=Obituary:Professor Robert Nozick |newspaper=[[Daily Telegraph]] |date=January 28, 2002 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1382871/Professor-Robert-Nozick.html |access-date=April 17, 2017 |archive-date=August 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802011542/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1382871/Professor-Robert-Nozick.html |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |title=Obituary: Professor Robert Nozick |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-robert-nozick-9255897.html |access-date=April 17, 2017 |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |last=Ryan |first=Alan |date=April 12, 2014 |archive-date=October 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020022113/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-robert-nozick-9255897.html |url-status=live }}
* {{cite web |last1=Schaefer |first1=David Lewis |title=Robert Nozick and the Coast of Utopia |url=http://www.nysun.com/arts/robert-nozick-and-the-coast-of-utopia/75572/ |website=The New York Sun |access-date=April 17, 2017 |archive-date=December 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222205626/https://www.nysun.com/arts/robert-nozick-and-the-coast-of-utopia/75572/ |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |last1=O'Grady |first1=Jane |title=Robert Nozick: Leftwing political philosopher whose rightward shift set the tone for the Reagan-Thatcher era |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/jan/26/guardianobituaries.socialsciences |access-date=April 17, 2017 |work=The Guardian |date=February 1, 2007 |quote=correction from original of 26 January 2002 |archive-date=March 31, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331122337/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/jan/26/guardianobituaries.socialsciences |url-status=live }}
* [https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2002/01/philosopher-robert-nozick-dies-at-63/ Philosopher Nozick dies at 63] From the Harvard Gazette {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918001743/http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/01.17/99-nozick.html |date=September 18, 2012 }}
* [http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/05/robert-nozick/ Robert Nozick Memorial minute] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060104225433/http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/05.06/18-mm.html |date=January 4, 2006 }}</ref> He was interred at [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].