PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY

PHIL 232, TTh 9am-10am in AUD A Angell Hall
The University of Michigan
Fall 2004

Name__________________________

 

Reading Questions: Frankfurt’s "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person"

Answer the following questions in a sentence or two.

  1. What is the will, according to Frankfurt?

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  2. What does it take to be a person on Frankfurt’s view?

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  3. How does Frankfurt characterize the notion of free will? What has to match with what, and how?

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  4. What are the 3 ways that a human being can fail to have free will as understood by Frankfurt? (Think of the 3 kinds of addicts he describes.)

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  5. How is it, according to Frankfurt, that a person could be morally responsible without having free will?