Tomis Kapitan
Tomis Kapitan | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1949 |
| Died | 2016 (aged 66–67) |
| Education | |
| Education | Indiana University Bloomington (PhD) |
| Thesis | Foundations for a Theory of Propositional Form, Implication, Alethic Modality, and Generalization |
| Doctoral advisor | Héctor-Neri Castañeda |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | Northern Illinois University |
| Main interests | Metaphysics, philosophy of language |
Tomis Kapitan (1949–2016) was an American philosopher and Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University. He worked primarily in metaphysics and philosophy of language. Kapitan was especially interested in the free will debate, where he was a "compatibilist," defending the view that free will is possible even in a completely deterministic universe. He also published in philosophy of religion and wrote extensively on the Palestine-Israeli conflict.