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- Robert Hilary Kane (November 25, 1938 – April 20, 2024) was an American philosopher. He was Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy and a professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Robert Hilary Kane (November 25, 1938 – April 20, 2024) was an American philosopher. He was Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy and a professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin.
Robert Kane was the acknowledged dean of the libertarian philosophers writing actively in the twentieth century on the free will problem. Before Kane, many Anglo-American philosophers had largely dismissed free will as a "pseudo-problem."
The chapter motivates this view of free will and outlines the particular libertarian view of Robert Kane. The chapter explains the distinguishing features of Kane’s view, focusing especially on self-forming actions.
Mar 3, 2005 · Robert Kane is University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of Free Will and Values, Through the Moral Maze, The Significance of Free Will, A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will, and Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom, among other works on mind and ...
Kane shows a comprehensive mastery of the historical and contemporary literature on free will. He is careful, fairminded, and even generous to his adversaries (a trait lamentably rare in debates about free will). Having said the above, I now proceed to spend most of this piece focusing on places of disagreement.
Abstract. It is now more than half a century since I first began thinking about issues of free will. The libertarian views of free will I developed over this long period have been much debated and have been refined and further developed in response to the critical literature.
After a clear and broad-reaching survey of these recent debates, Robert Kane presents his own controversial view. Arguing persuasively for a traditional incompatibilist or libertarian...
