Robert H. Kane (1938-2024)

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Robert H. Kane, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, has died.

David Sosa, chair of the Department of Philosophy at UT Austin, shared the following memorial notice:

The Department of Philosophy at UT Austin mourns the passing of its longtime member Robert Kane, who was University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Philo­sophy (Emeritus).

The author of seven books and more than eighty articles on the philosophy of mind, free will and action, ethics, value theory, political philosophy and philosophy of religion, inclu­ding Free Will and Values, Through the Moral Maze, The Signifi­cance of Free Will (inaugural winner of the Hamilton Faculty Book Award), A Contem­pora­ry Introduction to Free Will, and Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom, Kane was also editor of The Ox­ford Handbook of Free Will.

Kane was the recipient of seventeen major teaching awards at the University of Texas, including the “Presi­dent’s Excellence Award,” and was in 1995 named one of the initial members of the Universi­ty’s Aca­demy of Distin­guished Tea­chers.

Long a leading defender of a traditional “libertarian” view of free will, Kane was known for his attempts to reconcile such a view with modern science, and to articulate its implications for ethics, politics, and law.

[This post will be updated later today with further information.]

 

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