Michael McKenna is a contemporary American analytic philosopher specializing in free will, moral responsibility, and action theory. He is best known for defending compatibilism and for developing a conversational theory of moral responsibility, which frames moral accountability as a form of structured dialogue between agents. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Arizona.
Developed the conversational theory of moral responsibility, treating accountability as a structured moral dialogue
Authored Conversation and Responsibility (2012), a major statement of compatibilist moral responsibility theory
Co-authored Free Will: A Contemporary Introduction with Derk Pereboom, a widely used survey text
Authored the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on compatibilism
Argued that free will debates are irreducibly both metaphysical and ethical in character