Science, Faith, and Culture Lecture: Are All Values Relative? Seeking Common Ethical Ground in a World of Conflicting Views

Posted by: Center for Research in Science

Robert Kane, Ph.D.; University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Texas Austin

Robert Kane is author of seven books and sixty articles on the philosophy of mind and action, ethical theory and social ethics, the theory of value and philosophy of religion, including Free Will and Values (1985), Through the Moral Maze (1994), The Significance of Free Will (1996), A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will (2005), editor of The Oxford Handbook of Free Will (2002), among other anthologies, and a multiple contirbutor to the Cambridge Dictionary of Philsophy. His lecture series, The Quest for Meaning: Values Ethics, and the Modern Experience, appears in The Great Courses on Tape Series (The Teaching Company, Chantilly, Virginia).

He is generally regarded as one of the world's leading defenders of an incompatibilist and libertarian view of free will. He has been the recipient of fiteen major teaching awards at the University of Texas and was named in 1995 as one of the first twelve members of the university's Academy of Distinguished Teachers. His latest work on wisdom, values and ethics entitled Ethics and the Quest for Wisdom, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.