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Robert Kane | |
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| Born | November 25, 1938 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | April 20, 2024 (aged 85) |
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| Education | College of the Holy Cross (BA) University of Vienna Yale University (MA, PhD) |
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| Institutions | Fordham University Haverford College University of Texas at Austin |
| Main interests | Study of free will |
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.
His major contributions include, Free Will and Values (1985), Through the Moral Maze (1994), and The Significance of Free Will (1996: awarded the 1996 Robert W. Hamilton Faculty Book Award). He also edited the Oxford Handbook of Free Will (2004) and published many articles in the philosophy of mind and action, ethics, the theory of values and philosophy of religion.