Nozick’s AnArchy, StAte, And UtopiA - Cambridge University Press ...

[Pages:10]Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19776-2 - The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia Edited by Ralf M. Bader and John Meadowcroft Frontmatter More information

The Cambridge Companion to

Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is recognized as a classic of modern political philosophy. Along with John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), it is widely credited with breathing new life into the discipline in the second half of the twentieth century. This Companion presents a balanced and comprehensive assessment of Nozick's contribution to political philosophy. In engaging and accessible chapters, the contributors analyze Nozick's ideas from a variety of perspectives and explore relatively neglected areas of the work such as his discussion of anarchism and his theory of utopia. Their detailed and illuminating picture of Anarchy, State, and Utopia, its impact and its enduring influence will be invaluable to students and scholars in both political philosophy and political theory.

r a l f m . b a de r is a Bersoff Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in the Philosophy Department at New York University. He is the author of Robert Nozick (2010).

joh n m e a d owc rof t is Lecturer in Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy, King's College London. He is the author of The Ethics of the Market (2005), James M. Buchanan (2011), and (with Mark Pennington) Rescuing Social Capital from Social Democracy (2007).

? in this web service Cambridge University Press



Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19776-2 - The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia Edited by Ralf M. Bader and John Meadowcroft Frontmatter More information

Other volumes in the series of Cambridge Companions

ABELARD Edited by J E F F R E Y E. BROW E R and KEVIN GUILFOY

ADORNO Edited by T HOM A S H U H N ANCIENT SCEPTICISM Edited by R IC H A R D BET T ANSELM Edited by BR I A N DAV I E S and BR I A N L E F T OW AQUINAS Edited by NOR M A N K R ET Z M A N N and

ELEONORE STUMP ARABIC PHILOSOPHY Edited by P ET E R A DA M SON and

RICHARD C. TAYLOR HANNAH ARENDT Edited by DA NA V I L L A ARISTOTLE Edited by JONAT H A N B A R N E S ATHEISM Edited by M IC H A E L M A RT I N AUGUSTINE Edited by E L E ONOR E S T U M P and

NORMAN KRETZMANN BACON Edited by M A R K K U P E LT ON E N BERKELEY Edited by K E N N ET H P. W I N K L E R BOETHIUS Edited by JOH N M A R E N BOn BRENTANO Edited by DA L E JACQU ET T E CARNAP Edited by M IC H A E L F R I E DM A N CONSTANT Edited by H E L E NA ROSE N BL AT T CRITICAL THEORY Edited by F R E D RUSH DARWIN 2nd edition Edited by JONAT H A N HODG E

and G R EG ORY R A DIC K SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Edited by C L AU DI A C A R D DESCARTES Edited by JOH N CO T T I NG H A M DEWEY Edited by MOL LY COC H R A N DUNS SCOTUS Edited by T HOM A S W I L L I A M S EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY Edited by A . A . L ONG EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY Edited by

donald RUTHERFORD EPICUREANISM Edited by JA M E S WA R R E N FEMINISM IN PHILOSOPHY Edited by

M I R A N DA F R IC K E R and J E N N I F E R HOR NSBY FOUCAULT 2nd edition Edited by GARY GUTTING FREGE Edited by MICHAEL POTTER and TOM RICKETTS

Continued at the back of the book

? in this web service Cambridge University Press



Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19776-2 - The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia Edited by Ralf M. Bader and John Meadowcroft Frontmatter More information

The Cambridge Companion to

Nozick's A na rch y, State, and Utopia

Edited by

Ralf M. Bader

New York University

and John Meadowcroft

King's College London

? in this web service Cambridge University Press



Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19776-2 - The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia Edited by Ralf M. Bader and John Meadowcroft Frontmatter More information

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, S?o Paulo, Delhi, Tokyo, Mexico City Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 8ru, UK

Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York

Information on this title: 9780521197762

? Cambridge University Press

This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.

First published 2011

Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge

A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data The Cambridge companion to Nozick's Anarchy, state, and utopia / [edited by] Ralf M. Bader, John Meadowcroft. p. cm. ? (Cambridge companions to philosophy) Includes bibliographical references and index. i s b n 978-0-521-19776-2 (hardback) ? i s b n 978-0-521-12002-9 (paperback) 1. Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, state, and utopia. 2. Nozick, Robert?Political and social views. 3.State, The. 4. Anarchism. 5. Utopias. 6. Political science?Philosophy.I. Bader, Ralf M. II. Meadowcroft, John, 1971?III. Title.IV.Series. jc571.n683c36 2011 320.101?dc23 2011019268

isbn 978-0-521-19776-2 Hardback isbn 978-0-521-12002-9 Paperback

Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

? in this web service Cambridge University Press



Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19776-2 - The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia Edited by Ralf M. Bader and John Meadowcroft Frontmatter More information

Contents

Notes on contributors Note on citation

page ix xii

Introduction

1

Ralf M. Bader and John Meadowcroft

Part I Morality

1Side constraints, Lockean individual rights, and the

moral basis of libertarianism

15

Richard J. Arneson

2 Are deontological constraints irrational?

38

Michael Otsuka

3 What we learn from the experience machine

59

Fred Feldman

Part II Anarchy

4 Nozickian arguments for the more-than-

minimal state

89

Eric Mack

5 Explanation, justification, and emergent

properties: an essay on Nozickian metatheory

116

Gerald Gaus

Part III Justice

6 Nozick's libertarian theory of justice

145

Peter Vallentyne

vii

? in this web service Cambridge University Press



Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19776-2 - The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Edited by Ralf M. Bader and John Meadowcroft Frontmatter More information

viii Contents

7 Nozick's critique of Rawls: distribution, entitlement, and the assumptive world of A Theory of Justice 168 John Meadowcroft

8 The right to distribute

197

David Schmidtz

9 Does Nozick have a theory of property rights?

230

Barbara Fried

Part IV Utopia

10 The framework for utopia

255

Ralf M. Bader

11 E pluribus plurum, or, How to fail to get to

utopia in spite of really trying

289

Chandran Kukathas

References

303

Index

313

? in this web service Cambridge University Press



Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19776-2 - The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia Edited by Ralf M. Bader and John Meadowcroft Frontmatter More information

contributors

R ic h a r d J. A r n e son is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at San Diego, where he has taught since 1973, and a Co-director of the Institute for Law and Philosophy at the School of Law, University of San Diego. He has been visiting professor at the University of California, Davis and at Yale University, as well as a visiting fellow at the Research School of Social Science, Australian National University. He has published widely in ethics and political philosophy.

R a l f M . B a de r is a Bersoff Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at New York University. His research focuses on contemporary metaphysics and Kant scholarship, as well as on moral and political philosophy. He is the author of Robert Nozick (2010).

F r e d F e l dm a n is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he has been teaching since 1969. He is the author of numerous books, including Doing the Best We Can (1986), Confrontations with the Reaper (1992), Utilitarianism, Hedonism, and Desert (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Pleasure and the Good Life (2004), and What Is This Thing Called Happiness? (2010).

B a r b a r a F r i e d is the William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. She has written extensively on questions of distributive justice, in the areas of tax policy, property theory, and political theory. She is the author of an

ix

? in this web service Cambridge University Press



Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19776-2 - The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Edited by Ralf M. Bader and John Meadowcroft Frontmatter More information

x

Notes on contributors

intellectual history of the progressive era law and economics, entitled The Progressive Assault on Laissez-Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement (1998).

G e r a l d G aus is the James E. Rogers Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He is the author of On Philosophy, Politics and Economics (2008), Contemporary Theories of Liberalism: Public Reason as a Post-Enlightenment Project (2003), and Justificatory Liberalism: an Essay on Epistemology and Political Theory (1996), among other books. His book The Order of Public Reason has been published by Cambridge University Press. He is co-editor of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.

Chandran Kukathas is Chair in Political Theory in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics. Influential contributions include his books The Liberal Archipelago: A Theory of Diversity and Freedom (2003), Rawls: A Theory of Justice and Its Critics (with Philip Pettit, 1990) and Hayek and Modern Liberalism (1989) and his articles on the concepts of cultural rights, multiculturalism, and diversity. Kukathas has visited and lectured at many academic institutions across the world and in 2003 was awarded the Centenary Medal for services to Australian society through the study of social and political theory.

E r ic M ac k is Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University, where he is also a member of the faculty of the Murphy Institute of Political Economy. He has been a Visiting Fellow in Political Philosophy at Harvard University and a Visiting Research Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. He specializes in social and political philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of law. He is the author of John Locke (2009).

John Meadowcroft is Lecturer in Public Policy in the Depart ment of Political Economy at King's College London. He is the author of The Ethics of the Market (2005) and James M. Buchanan (2011), and co-author of Rescuing Social Capital from Social Democracy (2007). Since 2004 he has been a deputy editor and book review editor of the journal Economic Affairs. He is also

? in this web service Cambridge University Press



 ................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download