Robert H. Kane, professor emeritus of philosophy on the College of Texas at Austin, has died.
David Sosa, chair of the Division of Philosophy at UT Austin, shared the next memorial discover:
The Division of Philosophy at UT Austin mourns the passing of its longtime member Robert Kane, who was College Distinguished Educating Professor and Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus).
The writer of seven books and greater than eighty articles on the philosophy of thoughts, free will and motion, ethics, worth idea, political philosophy and philosophy of faith, including Free Will and Values, By way of the Ethical Maze, The Significance of Free Will (inaugural winner of the Hamilton School Ebook Award), A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will, and Ethics and the Quest for Knowledge, Kane was additionally editor of The Oxford Handbook of Free Will.
Kane was the recipient of seventeen main instructing awards on the College of Texas, together with the “President’s Excellence Award,” and was in 1995 named one of many preliminary members of the University’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers.
Lengthy a number one defender of a standard “libertarian” view of free will, Kane was recognized for his makes an attempt to reconcile such a view with trendy science, and to articulate its implications for ethics, politics, and regulation.
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