| Region: | Western philosophy |
| Era: | 21st-century philosophy |
| Tomis Kapitan | |
| Birth Date: | 1949 |
| Death Date: | 2016 |
| Institutions: | Northern Illinois University |
| Thesis Title: | Foundations for a Theory of Propositional Form, Implication, Alethic Modality, and Generalization |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Hector-Neri Castenada |
| Academic Advisors: | Romane Clark, Reinhardt Grossmann, J. Michael Dunn, James G. Hart |
| Education: | Indiana University, Bloomington (PhD) |
Tomis Kapitan (1949–2016) was an American philosopher and Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University.[1] [2] [3] 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.