Apr 14, 2004 | Stanford University

I. Taking Ourselves Seriously II. Getting it Right

Speaker Harry Frankfurt
Date Apr 14, 2004
End Date Apr 16, 2004

Harry G. Frankfurt is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Princeton University. He was educated at Johns Hopkins University, where he received his Ph.D. He has held positions at Ohio State University, the State University of New York at Binghamton, Rockefeller University, and at Yale. He was also a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written more than 50 scholarly articles, essays, and reviews and is the author of three books: Demons, Dreamers and Madmen: The Defense of Reason in Descartes’ Meditations (1970); The Importance of What We Care About (1988); and Necessity, Volition and Love (1999); and the editor of Leibniz: A Collection of Critical Essays (1972).