The Cambridge Companion to NOZICK’S ANARCHY, STATE, AND UTOPIA Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is recog- nized 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 con- tribution to political philosophy. In engaging and access- ible 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 A narchy, State, and Utopia , its impact and its enduring infl uence will be invaluable to students and scholars in both political philosophy and political theory. ralf m. bader is a Bersoff Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in the Philosophy Department at New York University. He is the author of Robert Nozick (2010). john meadowcroft is Lecturer in Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London. He is the author of T he Ethics of the Market (2005), James M. Buchanan (2011), and (with Mark Pennington) R escuing Social Capital from Social Democracy (2007). Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. Australian Catholic University, on 10 Mar 2017 at 07:28:02, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521197762.018 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2011 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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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. isbn 978-0-521-19776-2 (hardback) – isbn 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. Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. Australian Catholic University, on 10 Mar 2017 at 07:28:02, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521197762.018 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2011 Contents Notes on contributors page ix Note on citation xii Introduction 1 Ralf M. Bader and John Meadowcroft Part I Morality 1 Side 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 8 9 Eric Mack 5 Explanation, justifi cation, and emergent properties: an essay on Nozickian metatheory 116 Gerald Gaus Part III Justice 6 Nozick’s libertarian theory of justice 1 45 Peter Vallentyne vii Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. Australian Catholic University, on 10 Mar 2017 at 07:28:02, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521197762.018 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2011 viii Contents 7 N ozick’s critique of Rawls: distribution, entitlement, and the assumptive world of A Theory of Justice 168 John Meadowcroft 8 T he right to distribute 197 David Schmidtz 9 D oes Nozick have a theory of property rights? 2 30 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 3 13 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. Australian Catholic University, on 10 Mar 2017 at 07:28:02, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521197762.018 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2011 contributors Richard J. Arneson 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 pro- fessor 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. Ralf M. Bader 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). Fred Feldman 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 D oing the Best We Can (1986), C onfrontations with the Reaper (1992), U tilitarianism, Hedonism, and Desert (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Pleasure and the Good Life (2004), and What Is This Thing Called Happiness? (2010). Barbara Fried is the William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. She has written exten- sively on questions of distributive justice, in the areas of tax pol- icy, property theory, and political theory. She is the author of an ix Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. 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