Robert H. Kane

The University of Texas at
Austin
Ph. D., Yale University

Robert H. Kane is a University Distinguished Teaching
Professor of Philosophy at The University of Texas at
Austin. He received his B.A. from Holy Cross College and
earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale
University.

In his three decades on the UT faculty, Professor
Kane has won no fewer than 15 major teaching awards.
These include the Friar Society Centennial Teaching
Fellowship, the President’s Excellence Award, the
Liberal Arts Council Teaching Award, and the Delta
Epsilon Sigma Award for teaching introductory classes.
In 1995, he was named an inaugural member of the
university’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Dr. Kane is one of the world’s leading defenders of
an anti-determinist conception of free will. He is
internationally known for his efforts to reconcile such
a notion with modern science. His writings are comprised
of more than 60 articles and reviews and four books,
including Free Will and Values (1985) and
Through the Moral Maze: Searching for Absolute
Values in a Pluralistic World (1994). Professor
Kane’s work, The Significance of Free Will
(1996) won the Robert W. Hamilton Faculty Book Award and
has been the subject of symposia in major journals in
Europe and the United States and a conference in the
United States.

Courses by this
professor:
Great
Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd
Edition >
Quest
for Meaning: Values, Ethics, and the Modern
Experience >

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