PERSONAL:
Married: Claudette Drennan Kane
Two children
Home Address 2501 Bettis Boulevard
Austin, Texas 78746
512-327-2092

EDUCATION:
1960-64 Yale University, Ph.D. (1964); M.A. (1962).
Ph.D. Dissertation: Intentionality and Mind. Advisers: Wilfrid Sellars, Rulon Wells
1958-59 University of Vienna, Austria
1956-60 Holy Cross College, B.A. (1960) (magna cum laude)

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
1995 University Distinguished Teaching Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
1985-95 Professor of Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin
1974-85 Associate Professor of Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin
1970-74 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin
1967-70 Alfred E. Sloan Assistant Professor, Haverford College
1969 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
1964-67 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University
1962-63 Assistant Instructor, Yale University

ACADEMIC SPECIALTIES:
AOS: philosophy of mind and action, free will, ethics, theory of values, philosophy of religion
AOC: philosophy of science, metaphysics, social and political philosophy, applied ethics, history of philosophy (especially 19th and 20th century, both Continental and Anglo-American)

AWARDS, GRANTS, HONORS:
General:
First Annual Robert W. Hamilton Faculty Book Award (First Prize ($10, 000) for The Significance of Free Will. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Academy of Distinguished Teachers, Inaugural Member, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995- Marquis' Who's Who in America (Millennial Edition)
"The Modal Ontological Argument," (Mind, 1984) selected by The Philosopher's Annual as one of the ten best articles in philosophy published in 1984.
Marquis' Who's Who in the World (Millennial Edition)
Friar's Society Centennial Teaching Fellowship (Awarded by the Friar Society for Teaching Excellence), 1989-90.
Quality of Life Award: Texas Alliance for the Mentally Ill (1993)
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1960-61)
Sterling Fellowship, Yale University (1961-62)
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University (1963-64)
Alfred E. Sloan Foundation Fellowship for the study of the relationships of the sciences to the humanities in a liberal arts curriculum, Haverford College (1967-70)
Marquis' Who's Who in the South and Southwest (1975)
University Research Institute, Faculty Research Grant, The University of Texas at Austin (1978)
The University of Texas at Austin, Phi Beta Kappa chapter nominee, The Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship in Philosophy (1982-83)
University Research Institute, Faculty Research Grant, The University of Texas at Austin (1987)
Roy A. Vaughn Centennial Research Fellowship (1990)
NEH Summer Fellowship, UT-Austin nominee, (1993)
Who's Who in America, sin the Humanities (1991)
University Research Institute, Faculty Research Grant, The University of Texas at Austin (1993)
Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society. Honorary Member (Elected, 1996)
Parlin Fellow, Plan II Honors Program, The University of Texas at Austin, Inaugural Member, Elected, 1996.
University Research Institute, Faculty Research Grant (1998)

Teaching Awards:
President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award (Awarded for teaching in honors courses and introductory classes) (1983-84)
Liberal Arts Council Teaching Excellence Award, The University of Texas at Austin (1987-88)
Harry Ransom Award for Teaching Excellence in the College of Liberal Arts (1977-78)
Friar's Society Centennial Teaching Fellowship, 1989-90.
Hanson Tufts Parlin Award for Teaching Excellence (1976-77)
Delta Epsilon Sigma (Freshman Honor Society) Outstanding Teacher Award (1974-75)
The Chad Oliver Plan II Teaching Award (1992)
Phi Beta Kappa chapter of UT-Austin nominee, The Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award (1982-83)
The University of Texas designate, M.S. Piper Distinguished Teaching Award (1973-74)
College of Humanities, The University of Texas, designate for the Standard Oil Teaching Excellence Award (1972-73)
Jean Holloway Teaching Excellence Award, Runner-up (1975-76)
Utmost Magazine, Best Teacher Award 1981, 1990, Hall of Honor, 1992
Distinguished Teaching Award, Department of Philosophy (1995)
Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 1995

PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
1. The Significance of Free Will. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. (Winner of the Robert W. Hamilton Faculty Book Award for 1997.) Paperback edition: Oxford University Press, 1998.
2. Through the Moral Maze: Searching for Absolute Values in a Pluralistic World. New York: Paragon House Publishers, 1994. Paperback edition: North Castle Books. Armonk NY: M. E. Sharpe Publishers, 1996.
3. Free Will and Values. SUNY Series in Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985.
4. Hartshorne, Process Philosophy and Theology. Edited with Stephen Phillips. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.
5. Oxford Handbook on Free Will. Edited with an Introduction and contributed paper. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press (Forthcoming)
6. Free Will. Blackwell Series on Philosophical Problems. Edited with an introduction. Oxford: Blackwell's Publishers (Forthcoming)
7. Free Will: An Introduction. Oxford Introductions to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Forthcoming)

BOOKS IN PROGRESS:
8. Ethics and Aspiration: Ethical Reflections After Modernity

LECTURE SERIES (VIDEO AND AUDIO):
1. "The Quest for Meaning: Values, Ethics and the Modern Experience." A series of 24 lectures recorded on video and audio tapes. Published by The Teaching Company (Springfield, Virginia), The Great Courses on Tape Series, 1999
2. "Immanual Kant: His Epistemological and Moral Ideas." Two lectures in the series "Great Minds of the Western Tradition" recorded on video and audio tapes. Published by The Teaching Company (Springfield, Virginia, The Great Courses on Tape Series, 2000

ARTICLES (JOURNALS):
1. "Turing Machines and Mental Reports," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 44, 3 (Decem-ber, 1966), 344-352
2. "Empiricism and Ontology in Rudolf Carnap's Thought," International Philosophical Quarterly 7 (March 1967), 138-176
3. "Minds, Causes and Behavior," Review of Metaphysics 24, 2 (December 1970), 302-334.
4. "Presupposition and Entailment," Mind 81, 3 (July 1972), 401-404
5. "Nature, Plenitude and Sufficient Reason," American Philosophical Quarterly 13, 1 (January 1976), 23-33
6. "Divine Foreknowledge and Causal Determinism," Southwestern Journal of Philosophy 9, 1 (Spring 1978), 69-76
7. "The Modal Ontological Argument," Mind 93, 3 (July 1984), 336-350. (Reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual, Vol. VII Acastadero: Ridgeview Press, 1986. Selected by The Philosopher's Annual as one of the ten best articles in philosophy published in 1984)
8. "Principles of Reason," Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Analytic Philosophy 24, 2 (Fribourg, March 1986), 115-136
9. "Free Will and Responsibility: Comments on Waller's Review" Behaviorism: A Forum for Critical Inquiry 16, 2 (Fall, 1988), 159-165
10. "Libertarianism and Rationality Revisited," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 26,3 (Fall, 1988), 441-460
11. "Prima Facie Good: Freude, schoner Gotterfunken..." The Journal of Value Inquiry 22 (1988): pp. 279-297.
12. "Two Kinds of Incompatibilism," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 1, No. 2 (December, 1989): 219-254. (Reprinted in Timothy O'Connor, ed. Agents, Causes and Events: Essays on Free Will and Indeterminism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.)
13. "Free Will and Moral Responsibility: A Study of B. N. Waller's Freedom Without Responsibility" Behavior and Philosophy 21 (Spring/Summer, 1992), pp. 77-82.
14. "The Ends of Metaphysics," International Philosophical Quarterly xxxiii, 4 (December, 1993): pp. 413-428.
15. "Free Will: The Elusive Ideal." Philosophical Studies. Special Issue: Sym-posium on Freedom, Responsibility, and Determinism 75 (September, 1994): pp. 25-60. (Reprinted in N. Scott Arnold, G. Graham and L. Stephens, eds., Philosophy Then and Now London: Blackwell's, 1998.)
16. "Acts, Patterns, and Self-Control: Rachlin's Theory." Behavioral amd Brain Sciences 18:1 (October, 1994), pp. 131-132.
17. "Control, Responsibility and Free Will: A Reply to Bernstein." Southwest Philosophy Review 11 (July, 1995), pp. 255-258.
18. "Critical Study of N.M.L. Nathan's Will and World: A Study of Metaphysics. Philosophia (The Philosophical Journal of Israel) 24 (December, 1995), 523-530.
19. "Values and Ethics." Discovery 14: 4 (Spring, 1997), pp. 13-17.
20. "Free Will, Responsibility and Will-setting." Philosophical Topics (Special Issue on Free Will) 24:2 (Fall, 1997), pp. 67-90
21. "Four Dimensions of Value: From Experience to Worth" Center: The Journal of American Architecture and Design. 10 (Fall, 1997): pp. 9-15
22. "Dimensions of Value and the Aims of Social Inquiry." American Behavioral Scientist. 41 (January, 1998): pp. 578-597.
23. "Responsibility, Luck and Chance: Reflections on Free Will and Indeterminism." The Journal of Philosophy 96/5 (May, 1999): pp. 217-240. (Reprinted in L. Ekstrom (ed.) Free Will: A Book of Readings. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press (Forthcoming) and in R. Kane (ed.) Free Will. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers (Forthcoming).
24. "On Free Will, Responsibility and Indeterminism: Responses to Clarke, Haji and Mele." Discussion of R. Kane's The Significance of Free Will. Philosophical Explorations: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Mind and Action (Utrecht and Brussels) 2 (May, 1999): pp. 105-121.
25. "New Directions on Free Will." Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy. Boston, Ma.: Boston University Press, 1999: pp. 135-42.
26. "Precis of The Significance of Free Will" and "Responses to Bernard Berofsky, John Martin Fischer and Galen Strawson." Symposium on R. Kane's The Signifi-cance of Free Will. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research XL (January, 2000): pp. 129-34 and pp. 157-67.
27. "Values and Metaphors: Comments on Mirowski's 'Value in Economics' and Johnson's 'Metaphors of Value.'" Center: The Journal of American Architecture and Design 11 (September, 1999), pp. 33-37.
28. "The Dual Regress of Free Will and the Role of Alternative Possibilities." Forthcoming in Philosophical Perspectives vol 14.
29. "Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments: Comments on Wallace's Theory." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (Forthcoming)
30. "Free Will and Moral Responsibility: Ancient Disputes, New Themes" and "Reply to Fischer and Haji." Journal of Ethics (Forthcoming)
31. "Deontic Acts, Frankfurt-style Cases and 'Ought' implies 'Can" Journal of Ethics (Forthcoming)
32. "Non-constraining Control and the Threat of Social Conditioning." Journal of Ethics (Forthcoming)
33. "Temporality, Transcendence and Personal Identity" in Hartshorne, Process Philosophy and Theology, R. Kane and S. Phillips (eds.) Albany: State University of New York Press (1989): pp. 169-174
34. "Free Will, Determinism, and Creativity in Hartshorne's Thought," in The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne, The Library of Living Philosophers, Vol. 20. Edited by Lewis Hahn. Open Court Publishing Company. (1991): pp. 135-155.
35. "Principle of Plenitude," "Principle of Insufficient Reason," "Liberum Arbitrium," and "Book of Life." In R. Audi, ed.,The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
36. "Jacobus Arminius," "Socinus and Socinianism," "Charles Renouvier," "Jules Lequier," and "Ernst Bloch." In R. Audi, ed.,The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
37. "Jamesian Reflections on Will, Freedom and Values." In Robert W. Burch, ed., Frontiers in American Philosophy, Vol. II. College Station, TX.: Texas A & M University Press, (1995): pp. 365-374.
38. "Anselm's Second, or Modal, Ontological Argument." In Stephen Phillips, ed., Philosophy and World Religions. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich (1995): pp. 155-163.
39. " Personal Life Inspired by the Spirit: Redefining Virtue." In J. R. Adams, ed., Out of the Whirlwind. Vol. 1. Cambridge, MA.: Center for Progressive Christianity (1996): pp. 22-29.
40. "Foreword" to Translation of Works of Jules Lequyer. Edited with an Introduction by Donald Wayne Viney. Lewiston, N. Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998, pp. xi-xiv.
41. "Searching for Absolute Values in a Pluralistic World." In Gordon, J., V. Luizzi and M. Tangum, eds., Morality and Values in the University. Southwest Texas State University Publications, (1997): pp. 38-51.
42. "What is Worth Believing?" Alcalde. September/October, 1997: pp. 20-24
43. "Uncertainty and Free Will" Forthcoming in Facing the Uncertain. Ed. by Ilya Prigogine and Dean Driebe.
44. "Free Will: Old Dispute, New Themes." In L. Bowie, M. Michaels, and R. Solomon (eds.) Twenty Questions: Readings in Philosophy. Forth Worth, TX: Harcourt, Brace. 4th edition.
45. "Ultimate Responsibility and the Intelligibility of Free Will." In R. Kane (ed.) Oxford Handbook on Free Will (Forthcoming)
46. "Free Will: Ancient Dispute, New Perspectives." In Joel Feinberg and R. Shafer-Landau (eds.) Reason and Responsibility Seventh Edition. (Forthcoming)
47. "Incompatibilism, Responsibility and Frankfurt-style Examples." M. McKenna and D. Widerker (eds.) Freedom, Responsibility and Frankfurt-style Cases (Forthcoming)

REVIEWS
1. J. H. Sobel. Puzzles for the Will. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Mind 109 (July 2000):
2. B. Berofsky. Liberation from Self: ATheory of Personal Autonomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. The Philosophical Review 106 (October, 1997): pp. 599-601
3. John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza. Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. The Philosophical Quarterly 49 (October, 1999): pp. 543-45.
4. L. Zagzebski. The Problem of Foreknowledge and Freedom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Mind. 105 (July, 1996), 419-421.
5. H. Bok. Freedom and Responsibility. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998, and John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza. Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. The Times Literary Supplement (London) (August 13, 1999), p. 30
6. Kevin Magill. Freedom and Experience: Self-determination Without Illusions. London: MacMillan and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Philosophical Books 39:3 (July 1998): pp. 166-167.
7. Ted Honderich. How Free Are We? The Determinism Problem. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, and Morton White. The Question of Free Will: A Holistic View. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. The Times Higher Education Supplement (London), September, 1994.
8. Weatherford, Roy. The Implications of Determinism. London: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1991. The Philosophical Quarterly (St. Andrews, Scotland) 1993: pp. 387-389.
9. M. Klein, Determinism, Blameworthiness and Deprivation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. The Times Literary Supplement (London) September, 1990.
10. J. Post, Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, N.Y. Paragon Books, 1991. Teach-ing Philosophy 15:2 (June, 1992): pp. 190-192.
11. W. S. Anglin, Free Will and the Christian Faith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991; R. Double, The Non-Reality of Free Will. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990; S. Wolf, Freedom Within Reason. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990; L. Zagzebski, The Problem of Freedom and Foreknowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991,The Times Literary Supplement (London) September, 1991.
12. G. Strawson, Freedom and Belief. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986; International Philosophical Quarterly 30 (1990), 260-2.
13. T. V. Morris (ed.) The Concept of God. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987; Teaching Philosophy 12 (1989), 91-3.
14. R. Barrow, Injustice, Inequality and Ethics. Barnes & Noble, London, 1982; Review of Metaphysics 39 (1986), 765-757.
(continued) 15. R. Richman, God, Free Will and Morality. D. Reidel Publishing, 1983; Review of Meta-physics 39 (1985), 374-375.
16. J. Thorp, Free Will: A Defense Against Neurophysiological Determinism. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982; Review of Metaphysics 36 (1983), 948-950.
17. P. A. French, The Scope of Morality. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1980; Review of Metaphysics 36 (1982), 448-449.
18. B. G. Norton, Linguistic Frameworks and Ontology. Mouton Publishers, 1977; Review of Mataphysics 33 (1979), 440-441.
19. R. Ackerman, Philosophy of Science. Pegasus, New York, 1970; Abraxas: Journal for the Theoretical Study of the Scinces and the Humanities 1 (1971), 313-316.
20. N. Care and R. Grimm (eds.), Perception and Personal Identity. Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1969; Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 30 (1970), 624-626.
21. G. Frege, The Basic Laws of Arithmetic: Exposition of the System. Trans. and edited with an Introduction by Montgomery Furth. University of Cali-fornia Press, Berkeley, 1964: International Philosophical Quarterly 6 (1966), 316-19.
22. Umberto Eco, The Meaning of Interpretation, forthcoming in International Philosophical Quarterly
22. L. Zagzebski, The Problem of Freedom and Foreknowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, forthcoming in Mind.

INVITED ADDRESSES (Selected, since 1990)
Texas Commission for the Humanities, Amarillo, Texas: Program on "Texas in the 21st Century: Structures for the Future," "Ethics and the Future of Society," January, 1990
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Louisville, Kentucky, Plenary Session Symposium, "Free Will: The Case for the Traditional View," April, 1990
U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., "Ethics and Warfare," November, 1990
Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York City, "Ethics and Society," November, 1990.
American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Boston, MA, "Free Will, Ultimacy, and Sufficient Reason," December, 1990.
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, Graduate Lecture, "Themes in Contemporary Ethical Theory," Undergraduate Lecture "The Ethical Quest," December, 1990
20th World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, MA. Sponsored by Federation Internationale des Societes de Philosophie. Special Session on Free Will. "New Directions on Free Will" (August, 1998)
U. S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO. National Conference on character adn Leadership. "Through the Moral Maze," and "Aspirations for Glory" (March, 1999)
Trinity University, San Antonio, TX. National Undergraduate Philosophy Conference. Keynote Address: "Pluralism, Relativism and the Modern Moral Maze." (March, 1998)
Progigine Center for Statistical Mechanics, UT-Austin. Lecture Series "Facing the Uncertain" sponsored by Ilya Prigogine. "Uncertainty and Free Will" (April, 1998)
International Business Fellows Seminar Program. UT-Austin, Business School. "Contemporary Debates about Values" (March, 1998)
East Carolina University, Medical School, Greenville, North Carolina. "Modern Ethical Dilemmas" and Department of Philosophy Colloquy, "Free Will: the Elusive Ideal" (February, 1995)
Southern Methodist University. Eastwoods Speaker. "Relativism, Pluralism and the Modern Experience" (November, 1998)
Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Forum, Bryn Mawr College (Consortium of Philadelphia Area Colleges and Universities). Conference on my book The Significance of Free Will and two other works (October, 1999)
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. "Free Will: Old Problem, New Themes." (November 1999).
St. Edward's University, Austin, TX. "Moral Dilemmas of the Modern World" (March, 1999)
Texas A & M University, "New Directions on Free Will" (October, 1998)
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Memphis, TN. Symposium: featured speaker: "Freedom and Responsibility," April, 1992
Center for American Architecture and Design, The University of Texas at Austin, International conference on "The Idea of Economic Value": Presentation entitled "Four Dimensions of Value: From Experience to Worth" (October, 1994)
Southwestern Philosophical Society, Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Symposium contribution: "Reasons for Action, Indeterminism and Moral Responsibility" (November, 1994)
Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina: "The Significance of Free Will" (Invited Symposium) and "Through the Moral Maze" (Public Lecture) (February, 1995)
Philosophical Forum, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. Public Lecture: "Through the Moral Maze: Searching for Absolute Values in a Pluralistic World" Projected: (September, 1995)
Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas. "University Education and the Search for Absolute Values in a Pluralistic World." Part of Lecture Series on "Values and the Modern University," (November, 1995)
Commencement Address, College of Liberal Arts, the University of Texas, Austin, Texas (December, 1995)
Philosophical Forum, Prade Ranch, Kerrville Texas. "Through the Moral Maze." (April, 1996)
Conference on Values and Social Inquiry, Department of Educational Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin. Keynote Address: "Objective Worth, Strong Evaluations and Social Inquiry" (April, 1996)
Center for Progressive Christianity, Conference, Columbia, South Carolina. "Religious Conviction in a Pluralist Age." (June, 1996)
Industrial Areas Foundation, Spring Conference on Values and Political Action. Austin, Texas. "Through the Moral Maze: Ethical Value and Political Action." (May, 1996)
Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina. "Utopias, Controlled Societies, Free Will and Values." (February, 1997)
University of South Carolina, South Carolina Philosophy Society Meeting, "Reflections on Free Will" (February, 1997)
Tuesday Forum of Books and Ideas, Houston, Texas. "Through the Moral Maze." (March, 1997)
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Symposium on R. Kane's The Significance of Free Will. Opening Address ("Free Will and Ultimate Responsibility") and Replies to critical papers by other participants. (September, 1997)
Texas Academy for Advanced Legal Ethics. Inaugural Conference. Austin, Texas. "Legal Ethics and the Modern Moral Maze." (November, 1997)
University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI. "Modern Ethical Dilemmas" and "In Defense of Free Will" (February 2001)
Northwest Philosophical Society, Conference on Action and Freedom, Helena, Montana. "New Directions on Free Will" (April, 2001)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Associations: American Philosophical Association
(Program Committee, Pacific Division, 1999-2002)
Mind Association (Great Britain)
Metaphysical Society of America
Behavior and Brain Sciences, Associate
Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Society for the Philosophy of Religion
Center for Process Studies
Southwestern Philosophical Society

Journals:
Behavior and Philosophy , Editorial Board
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Associate
American Philosophical Quarterly, Referee
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Referee
Philosophy of Science, Referee
Philosophical Studies, Referee
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Referee
Southern Journal of Philosophy, Referee
Journal of Philosophical Research, Referee

Presses:
Reader For:
Oxford University Press
Cambridge University Press
Cornell University Press
MIT Press
University of California Press
MacMillan Publishing Company
Penn State University Press
Temple University Press
State University of New York Press
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
St. Martin's Press
Westview Press
Wadsworth Publishing Company
Paragon House Publishers
M. E. Sharpe Publishers

DISSERTATIONS , THESES, DIRECTED (PH.D. and M. A.)
Neil Brady, Ph. D."Functional Explanation in Social Anthropology" (1975) John Moskop, Ph. D. "Divine Omniscience and Human Freedom" (1978) (Revised version published by Mercer University Press, 1984) Billy Joe Lucas, Ph. D. "The Logic of Omniscience" (1982) (Nominee of Department of Philosophy for Graduate School Dissertation Award) Mohammed Valady, Ph. D. "The Development of Sartre's Notion of Freedom" (1988) Jay Misenheimer, M.A., "Why Be Moral? The Ring of Gyges and Modern Moral Theory" (1988) Margaret Lang, Ph. D. "Democracy and Tradition: The Republican Tradition and Education in America" (1989) Laura Syron, M.A. "Ethical Rationalism and the Justification of Morality" (1990) Allan Cook, M.A., "Moral Realism and the Theory of Knowledge" (1990) Sunil Kothari, M.A., "Rationality, Dialogue and Democracy: Politics and the Modern Critique of Reason" (1991) Chad McCracken, M.A. "Hegelian Themes in Political Philosophy" (1994) Emrys Westacott, Ph. D. "Relativism and the Critique of Reason" (1995) Chad McCracken Ph.D. "Hegel's Philosophy of Right and Modern Political Theory" Co-director with Robert Solomon (1996) Jefferson Parker M. A. "The Justification of Moral Principles: Rational and Phenomenological Methods." (1997) Robert Bishop, Ph. D. "Physics, Freedom and Foreknowledge." Co-director with Frederick Kronz (1999) Kevin Rouintree, Ph. D. "Virtue, Pluralism and Human Nature: Towards an Integration of Virtue Ethics and Modern Moral Theory." (2000)

TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Graduate:
387 Contemporary Ethical Theory
382 Philosophy of Mind and Action
382 Philosophy of Religion
382 Metaphysics and Mind
382 Action, Freedom and Responsibility
387 Theory of Value
387 Ethics: Ancient and Modern
386 Basic Issues in the Philosophy of Science
382 Intellect, Emotion and Will
380 The Philosophy of Aristotle

Undergraduate:
301 Introductory Philosophical Inquiries
304 Contemporary Moral Problems
310 Introduction to Philosophy
610QA & B Problems of Knowledge and Valuation (Plan II)
318 Introduction to Ethics
322 Science and the Modern World
TC 659 Science, Freedom and Values (Honors Seminar)
379L Majors Seminar: Contemporary Philosophy
LAH 377H Ideas of the 20th Century (Liberal Arts Honors)
375M Majors Seminar: Free Will, Ethics and Values

COMMITTEES AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE (Selected)
Plan II Interdisciplinary Honors Program Faculty Member and Adviser (1971- )
Plan II Honors Program Advisory Committee (1972-82; 1990- )
Liberal Arts Honors Program Faculty Member (1989- )
Liberal Arts Honors Advisory Committee (1989-1998)
Adviser to Chancellor of UT-System on Teaching Excellence Programs in the UT-System 1988-1992
URI, Committee "A" (Graduate School committee for review of University Research Institute grant application in Fine Arts, Humanities and Communication) (1982-86)
Academy of Distinguished Teachers
Chair, Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Philosophy, 1997-99
Graduate Adviser and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Philosophy, (1987 -91)
Undergraduate Advisor and Chair of the Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of Philosophy, 1976-82; and 1993-96
Assistant Chair, Department of Philosophy (1979-82)
Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Philosophy (1984-87)
Graduate Studies Executive Committee, Department of Philosophy (1982-86)
Chair, Selection Committee for Departmental Chair, 1986; and 1992.