![]() One is about his enormous intellectual modesty. But just a couple of reminiscences about Joseph come to mind as well. The main thing I want to say is to send my sympathy and my love to Penny and Noam and to say how very sorry I am for their loss. I never saw Nozick again, and never had a chance to thank him for what turned out to be the best practical advice I have ever received in my academic life. And that, of course, is exactly what I did. Well, he said, that's an easy one if you want to work on philosophy of law, there is only one place you should apply to, go to Oxford to work with Joseph Raz. I told him that I'm interested in philosophy of law, and just beginning to figure out where to apply for my doctorate studies. I lead him there and on the way we chatted for a while. My name is Robert Nozick, he said, and I'm looking for the philosophy office. Somewhere in the corridors of the humanities building I see a tall, handsome, and very American looking fellow, clearly lost in the maze of the corridors, so I offered my help. student in philosophy at Tel Aviv University. It must have been around 1985 when I was an M.A. The little story I want to tell is about the best advice I ever got in my professional career. Joseph smiled again and said: ‘I will spend a lot of time looking at this rock.’ He had, among all the obvious beauty, fastened upon the quietly sublime. ‘This is a truly wonderful rock.’ The rock that had captured him was an oblong smoothed by the ocean, with a circular dimple in its middle, not unlike the eye of a whale, streaked green with moss and lichen. Joseph smiled again and said: ‘I noticed this as soon as I arrived.’ He wasn’t, of course, looking at the horizon, but down to the foot of the cliff where the water met the rock. Showing them around, I took them first to the balcony and Joseph smiled widely. The house was at the edge of the Ben Buckler headland with an undisturbed view of the ocean. In December 2013, Joseph and Penny stayed at my home in North Bondi, Sydney, while visiting Noam. As distinctive, was his particular way of seeing the world, be it through the prism of philosophy, photography or more quotidian observation. Joseph’s generosity of mind and disposition is likely well known to anyone reading this page. Those opportunities have framed much of my life since. Joseph supervised my DPhil between 19, andinvited me to visit Columbia with him in the fall of 1998. Professor Ori Herstein, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem & King's College Londonĭr Ruth Higgins SC Photo courtesy of Balliol College Professor Niki Lacey, London School of Economics Jeffrey Hackney, Emeritus Fellow, St Edmund Hall and Wadham College, Oxford Professor Jeremy Waldron, New York University Professor José Juan Moreso, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Professor Yossi Nehushtan, Keele University Professor Stephen Munzer, University of California at Los Angeles Professor Lawrence Alexander, University of San Diego Horacio Spector, Universidad Torcuato de Tella Professor Jonathan Wolff, University of Oxford Professor Fred Schauer, University of Virginia Professor Brian Bix, University of Minnesota Professor Hillel Steiner FBA, University of Manchesterįrom the Convenors of the Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group: Cécile Degiovanni, Mauricio Garetto Boeri, Andreas Vassiliou Professor Kimberley Brownlee, University of British Columbia Professor Aileen Kavanagh, Trinity College Dublin Professor Joshua Getzler, University of Oxford Professor Stephen Perry, University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor David Enoch, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor James Penner, National University of Singapore Professor George Letsas, University College London Professor Irit Samet, King’s College London Professor Timothy Endicott, University of Oxford Professor David Heyd, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Kristen Rundle, Melbourne Law School ![]() Professor John Tasioulas, University of Oxford Professor Katy Barnett, Melbourne Law School Professor Dale Smith, Melbourne Law School Professor William Edmundson, Georgia State University Professor Matthew Harding, Melbourne Law School Professor Pablo Navarro, Universidad Nacional del Sur and Universidad Blas Pascal Professor Christine Sypnowich, Head of the Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canadaĭr Penelope Bulloch, Emeritus Fellow, Balliol College Professor Nicos Stavropoulos, University of Oxford Professor Annalise Acorn, University of Alberta Professor Ian Rumfitt, All Souls College Oxford Professor Anton Fagan, University of Capetown Faculty of Law Professor Jonathan Dancy, University of Texas at Austin Professor Wil Waluchow, McMaster University ![]() Les Green, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford Professor Julie Dickson, University of Oxford Professor Andrei Marmor, Cornell University
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