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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 . Frankfurt made significant contributions to fields like ethics ...
Jul 17, 2023 · Harry G. Frankfurt in 2005, the year his book on a certain kind of dishonesty became a best seller. He made his name with two seminal papers, in 1969 and 1971, that changed the debate about free will.
- James Ryerson
Aug 1, 2023 · 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 · 5 min. 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 ...
Jul 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. Robert P. George, Director of the Madison Program, paid tribute to Professor Frankfurt as “that rarest of things in academia or anywhere else: a genuinely in...
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...
Jul 17, 2023 · Professor Frankfurt, who was emeritus at Princeton University, also taught for many years at Yale University and, before that, at Rockefeller University and Ohio State University. Early in his career, he wrote an influential book on Descartes, but was of course best-known in philosophy for seminal papers on free will. The NYT obituary is here .
