Robert Kane (philosopher)

Robert Hilary Kane (* 1938 in Boston ) is an American philosopher .

He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin . His areas of work are philosophy of mind , theory of action , free will , ethics , value theory and philosophy of religion . The focus of his publication activities is free will , in the discourse about this he is one of the main representatives of libertarianism .

biography

Kane studied philosophy from 1956 to 1960 at Holy Cross College ( BA 1960), from 1958 to 1959 at the University of Vienna and from 1960 to 1964 at Yale University ( MA 1962, Ph.D. 1964).

From 1962 to 1963 he was an assistant instructor at Yale. In 1964 he became an assistant professor first at Fordham University , then in 1967 at Haverford College (1969 Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania ) and finally in 1970 at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1974 he became Associate Professor there, 1985 Professor, 1995 University Distinguished Teaching Professor.

Works

Monographs

• Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom . Cambridge University Press , Cambridge 2010 ISBN 978-0521199933
• Four Views on Free Will (with John Martin Fischer , Derk Pereboom , Manuel Vargas ). Blackwell Publishers , Malden / Oxford / Carlton 2007 ISBN 978-1-4051-3486-6
• A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will . Oxford University Press (OUP), Oxford 2005 ISBN 978-0195149708
• The Significance of Free Will . OUP 1998 ISBN 978-0195126563
• Through the Moral Maze: Searching for Absolute Values ​​in a Pluralistic World . Paragon House, 1998 ISBN 978-1557786012
• Free Will And Values . State University of New York Press (SUNYP), Albany 1985 ISBN 978-0887061028

Editing

• The Oxford Handbook of Free Will: Second Edition . (2nd, fully revised edition) OUP 2011 ISBN 978-0195399691
• The Oxford Handbook of Free Will . OUP 2005 ISBN 978-0195178548
• Free Will . Blackwell Publishers, Malden / Oxford / Carlton 2002 ISBN 978-0631221012
• Hartshorne, Process Philosophy and Theology (with Stephen Phillips ). SUNYP 1989 ISBN 978-0791401651

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Kane in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website at the University of Texas at Austin ( Engl. )
• Original text "Reflections on Free Will, Determinism And Indeterminism" on Ted Honderich's "Determinism and Freedom Philosophy Website"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ansgar Beckermann : Robert Kane. Retrieved November 30, 2011 . 
2. ^ ^{A b c} Robert Kane: Curriculum Vitae. (No longer available online.) University of Texas at Austin, archived from the original on October 5, 2013 ; Retrieved November 30, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.