Harry Frankfurt

Harry Gordon Frankfurt, born David Bernard Stern in 1929 and died in 2023, was an American philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught from 1990 until 2002. He also taught at Yale University, Rockefeller University and Ohio State University. His article records significant contributions to ethics and the philosophy of mind, including his account of a person as someone with second-order volitions, and the counterexamples known as Frankfurt cases, which are aimed at the principle that moral responsibility depends on the ability to do otherwise. His best-known book is On Bullshit, published in 2005.