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Harry Gordon Frankfurt (May 29, 1929 – July 16, 2023) was an American philosopher. He was a professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught from 1990 until 2002. Frankfurt also taught at Yale University, Rockefeller University, and Ohio State University .
Jul 17, 2023 · July 17, 2023. Harry G. Frankfurt, a philosopher whose fresh ideas about the human will were overshadowed in the broader culture by his analysis of a kind of dishonesty that he found worse...
- James Ryerson
Harry Gordon Frankfurt was born David Bernard Stern on May 29, 1929 at a home for unwed mothers in Langhorne, PA. Raised in Brooklyn and Baltimore by his adoptive parents, Bertha Frankfurt, a piano teacher, and Nathan Frankfurt, a bookkeeper, he received his BA from Johns Hopkins in 1949, after which he spent two years at Cornell before return...
Aug 1, 2023 · on Aug. 1, 2023, 9:33 a.m. Harry Frankfurt, professor of philosophy, emeritus, renowned for his scholarship on free will and moral responsibility, died from a number of causes, including congestive heart failure, at a care facility in Santa Monica, California, on July 16. He was 94.
Jul 18, 2023 · In Memoriam: Harry G. Frankfurt. July 18, 2023. The James Madison Program joins the University in mourning the death of Harry G. Frankfurt, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton, who died in California at age 94 on July 16, 2023.
Jul 18, 2023 · Harry G. Frankfurt, a Princeton University philosopher who wrote primarily on Descartes, free will and moral responsibility but found literary fame with his unexpected bestseller “On...
