JOHANN FRICK

Department of Philosophy (609) 258-9494 (office) 212 1879 Hall (857) 399-5709 (cell) Princeton University (609) 258-1502 (fax) Princeton, New Jersey 08544- [email protected] 1006

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Normative Ethics; Practical Ethics (including Bioethics); Political Philosophy.

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

Metaethics; Philosophy of Law; Metaphysics; Philosophy of Action; Wittgenstein.

EMPLOYMENT

Feb 2015 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Present Center for Human Values, Princeton University.

Feb 2014 – Instructor in the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Jan 2015 Human Values, Princeton University.

EDUCATION

2008 - 2014 Ph.D. in Philosophy, Harvard University. • Dissertation: “Making People Happy, Not Making Happy People: A Defense of the Asymmetry Intuition in Population Ethics”; Committee: T.M. Scanlon, Frances Kamm, Derek Parfit.

2005 - 2008 BPhil degree in Philosophy, Merton College, Oxford University. • Distinction in both the written examinations and the BPhil thesis. • BPhil thesis: “Morality and the Problem of Foreseeable Non- Compliance”; advisor: Derek Parfit. • Specialization in Moral Philosophy (tutor: Ralph Wedgwood); Political Philosophy (tutors: Joseph Raz and John Tasioulas); Wittgenstein (tutor: Stephen Mulhall).

2006 - 2007 Visiting student at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris. • Courses and seminars at the ENS, the Institut Jean Nicod, and the Collège de France; tutor: François Recanati.

2002 - 2005 BA (Hons.) degree in Philosophy, Politics & Economics, St. John’s College, Oxford University. • First Class Honours in the Final Examinations (June 2005). • Distinction in the Preliminary Examination (June 2003).

PUBLICATIONS

“Future Persons and Victimless Wrongdoing” in Markus Rüther and Sebastian Muders (eds.), Aufsätze zur Philosophie Derek Parfits (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, forthcoming).

“Treatment versus Prevention in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS and the Problem of Identified versus Statistical Lives” in Glenn Cohen, Norman Daniels, and Nir Eyal (eds.), Identified versus Statistical Lives (Oxford University Press, 2015).

“Uncertainty and Justifiability to Each Person: Response to Fleurbaey and Voorhoeve”, in Nir Eyal, Samia Hurst, Ole Norheim and Dan Wikler (eds.), Health Inequality: Ethics, Measurement and Policy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).

“Prioritarisme”. With Ekédi Mpondo-Dika. In V. Bourdeau and R. Merrill (eds.), Dictionnaire de théorie politique (2008): http://www.dicopo.fr/spip.php?article100.

IN PREPARATION

“Contractualism and Social Risk”.

“What We Owe to Hypocrites: Contractualism and the Speaker-Relativity of Justification”.

“Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry”.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

“Context-Dependent Betterness and the Mere Addition Paradox”.

“On the Survival of Humanity”.

“Probabilistic Causation and the Problem of Aggregate Effects”.

“Reshuffling the Deck: Why the ‘Natural Lottery’ Isn’t Enough”.

“Medical Resource Allocation Behind a Natural Veil of Ignorance”.

“National Partiality, Immigration, and the Problem of Double-Jeopardy”.

2 TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS

“Contractualism and Social Risk: How to Count the Numbers Without Aggregating”, Workshop on “The Ethics of Social Risk”, Centre de recherche en éthique, Université de Montréal (September 2015, scheduled).

“Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry”, MANCEPT Conference, panel on “New Work on Population Ethics”, University of Manchester (September 2015, scheduled).

“Contractualism and Social Risk: How to Count the Numbers Without Aggregating”, Moral Philosophy Seminar, University of Oxford (June 2015).

“Contractualism and Social Risk, Faculty Seminar, Center for Human Values, Princeton University (April 2015).

“Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry”, Workshop on “Time Bias and Future Planning”, Vancouver (March 2015).

“Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry”, Princeton Workshop on Normative Philosophy (March 2015).

“What We Owe to the Hypocrites: Contractualism and the Speaker-Relativity of Justification”, Swarthmore College (February 2015).

“Treatment vs Prevention for HIV/AIDS and the Problem of Identified vs Statistical Lives”, Bioethics Seminar, Harvard University (December 2014).

“Contractualism and Social Risk: How to Count the Numbers Without Aggregating”, Early Career Ethics Workshop, NYU (October 2014).

“Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry”, Early Career Ethics Workshop, NYU (March 2014).

“Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry”, Faculty Seminar, Center for Human Values, Princeton University (March 2014).

“Treatment vs Prevention for HIV/AIDS and the Problem of Identified vs Statistical Lives”, Bioethical Reflections in Honor of Dan Brock (retirement conference), Harvard University; respondent: Nir Eyal (November 2013).

“Treatment vs Prevention for HIV/AIDS and the Problem of Identified vs Statistical Lives”, “Talk Shop”, Harvard University (November 2013).

“Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry”, Moral and Political Philosophy Workshop, Harvard University (September 2013).

“Contractualism and Social Risk: How to Count the Numbers Without Aggregating”, Merton Workshop on Applied Formal Ethics, Oxford University (July 2013).

“Treatment vs Prevention for HIV/AIDS and the Problem of Identified vs Statistical Lives”, Applied Ethics Discussion Group, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford (June 2013).

“What We Owe to the Hypocrites: Contractualism and the Speaker-Relativity of

3 Justification”, Princeton University (February 2013).

“How to Defend the Intuition of Neutrality in Population Ethics”, Moral and Political Philosophy Workshop, Harvard University (November 2012).

“Contractualism and Social Risk: How to Count the Numbers Without Aggregating”, Fellows Workshop, Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University (April 2012).

“How to Defend the Intuition of Neutrality in Population Ethics”, Work in Progress Lunch, Harvard University (May 2012).

“What We Owe to the Hypocrites: Contractualism and the Speaker-Relativity of Justification”, Princeton Graduate Conference in Political Theory (March 2012).

“On the Survival of Humanity”, Moral and Political Philosophy Workshop, Harvard University (February 2012).

“On the Survival of Humanity”, Fellows Workshop, Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University (November 2011).

“Contractualism and Social Risk: How to Count the Numbers Without Aggregating”, Moral and Political Philosophy Workshop, Harvard University (October 2011).

“What We Owe to the Hypocrites: Contractualism and the Speaker-Relativity of Justification”, Fellows Workshop, Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University (October 2011).

“On the Survival of Humanity”, Applied Ethics Discussion Group, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford (July 2011).

“Probabilistic Causation and the Problem of Aggregate Effects”, Ockham Society, Oxford University (June 2011).

“Health Resource Allocation Behind a Natural Veil of Ignorance”, Guest Lecture in Dan Wikler’s undergraduate course on Bioethics, Harvard University (March 2011).

“What We Owe to the Hypocrites: Contractualism and the Speaker-Relativity of Justification”, Yale University (February 2011).

“How to Defend the Intuition of Neutrality in Population Ethics”, Ockham Society, Oxford University (June 2010).

“Health Resource Allocation Behind a Natural Veil of Ignorance”, Applied Ethics Discussion Group, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford University (June 2010).

“Health Resource Allocation Behind a Natural Veil of Ignorance”, Program for Ethics and Health, Harvard University (May 2010).

“Probabilistic Causation and the Problem of Aggregate Effects”, Harvard/MIT Discussion Group in Metaphysics and Epistemology (November 2009).

“Morality and the Problem of Foreseeable Non-Compliance”, Ockham Society, Oxford University (May 2008).

“Future Persons and Victimless Wrongs”, UT Austin Philosophy Graduate Conference (May

4 2007).

“Que devons-nous aux irrationnels? – Les limites du critère de la justifiabilité à chaque personne”, Workshop Problèmes et Méthodes, École Normale Supérieure, Paris (February 2007).

“Future Persons and Victimless Wrongs”, Workshop Normes, Société, Philosophie at Paris I - Sorbonne (November 2006).

“Emergency Aid to the Global Poor – Comments on Singer and Cullity”, Summer School Global Justice at the Beginning of the 21st Century with Mathias Risse and Michael Blake, Schloß Neubeuern, Germany (August 2006).

“Future Persons and Victimless Wrongs”, Ockham Society, Oxford University (June 2006).

“Aiming for Deaf Children - Parental Right or Moral Wrong? Reproductive Decisions and the Non-Identity Problem”, Strawson Society, St. John’s College, Oxford (February 2006).

RESPONSES AND COMMENTS

Commentary on Andreas Schmidt’s “Consequentialism and the Ethics of Blame”, Laurance S. Rockefeller Faculty Seminar, Princeton University (October 2014).

Invited response to Derek Parfit’s “Killing and Saving Lives”, Ira DeCamp Bioethics Seminar, Princeton University (October 2014).

INVITED CONFERENCES

Invited speaker at the Vancouver workshop on Time Bias and Future Planning (March 2015). • Other speakers include Meghan Sullivan, Tom Dougherty, Chrisoula Andreou, and Hallie Liberto.

Invited speaker at the 7th Annual Program in Ethics and Health Conference on “Identified vs. Statistical Lives”, Harvard University (April 2012). • Paper on “Three Ethical Concerns about ‘Treatment-as-Prevention’”, as part of a panel (with Till Bärnighausen, Max Essex, and Jonathan Wolff) discussing how “treatment-as-prevention” campaigns for HIV/AIDS intersect the problem of identified vs statistical lives.

Invited participant at the Consultation for the ‘Global Burden of Disease’ Report 2010, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington (July 2011). • The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation brought in a group of 20 philosophers and economists for a two-day workshop to advise them on ethical issues relating to the concept and measurement of “disability-adjusted life years”, the key metric for the most comprehensive survey of the world’s health. Other participants included Dan Brock, John Broome, Frances Kamm, Jeff McMahan, Thomas Pogge, Wlodek Rabinowicz, John Roemer, Larry Temkin, and Dan Wikler.

Invited speaker at the one-week conference on “Measurement and Ethical Evaluation of

5 Health Inequalities”, Fondation Brocher, Geneva (July 2010). • Talk on “Should Egalitarians Evaluate Social Risks From an Ex Ante or Ex Post Perspective? – Comments on Voorhoeve and Fleurbaey” as part of a panel with Alex Voorhoeve.

Invited speaker at the Oxford-Scandinavia Conference on Moral Philosophy, Oxford University (June 2010).

TEACHING

At Princeton

• PHI 519: Normative Ethics, graduate seminar, Department of Philosophy and Center for Human Values (Spring 2015). • CHV 333: Bioethics: Clinical and Population-Level, undergraduate seminar, Center for Human Values and Department of Philosophy (Spring 2015). • PHI 319: Normative Ethics, upper-level undergraduate class, Department of Philosophy and Center for Human Values (Fall 2014). • Graduate Prize Fellows Seminar, year-long work-in-progress seminar, Center for Human Values (AY 2014/15). • PHI 523: Topics in Population Ethics, Graduate Seminar, Department of Philosophy and Center for Human Values (Spring 2014).

At Harvard

• The Responsibilities of Public Action, teaching fellow for Professor Arthur Applbaum (Fall 2012). • Bioethics, teaching fellow for Professor Dan Wikler (Spring 2011). • The Responsibilities of Public Action, teaching fellow for Professor Arthur Applbaum (Fall 2010). • The Ethics of War, teaching fellow for Professor Frances Kamm (Spring 2010). • Ethical Foundations of Political Thought, co-instructor with Professor Michael Rosen (Fall 2009).

At the École Normale Supérieure, Paris

• Moral Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, “seminaire d’élèves” (Spring 2007).

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University (2013-14).

Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellowship in Ethics, Harvard University (2011-12).

Full scholarship to attend the Workshop on Measurement and Ethical Evaluation of Health Inequalities, Fondation Brocher, Geneva (June 2010).

Francis Bowen Prize, Harvard University, “conferred annually for the best essay upon a subject in moral or political philosophy” for my paper “What We Owe to the Hypocrites: Contractualism and the Speaker-Relativity of Justification” (June 2010).

College Prize in recognition of outstanding performance in the BPhil examinations,

6 Merton College, Oxford (July 2008).

Postgraduate Award of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (2005-08).

Gordon Baker Prize in Philosophy, St. John’s College, for best undergraduate student in philosophy, Oxford (July 2005).

Philosophy Graduate Scholarship at Merton College, Oxford (declined) and European Trust Scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge (declined), (March 2005).

Scholar of the Studienstiftung (German National Academic Foundation), which supports the top 0.3% of German university students (2003-08).

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Organizer and chair of a panel on “Justice and Risk Distribution” under the aegis of the Committee on Philosophy and Medicine, American Philosophical Association, 2015 Pacific Division Meeting. Panelists: Rahul Kumar, John Oberdiek, Collen Murphy, Paul Kelleher.

Referee for Utilitas, The Journal of Political Philosophy, Dialectica, and Ethical Perspectives.

Member of the American Philosophical Association and the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities.

Co-organizer, Harvard-MIT Graduate Philosophy Conference (2009-10).

Founder and co-convenor, Moral, Legal, and Political Philosophy Discussion Group, Oxford University (2008-09).

LANGUAGES

German and English (native), French (fluent), Latin (reading), Arabic (elementary).

REFERENCES

Dan Brock Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Harvard Medical School Division of Medical Ethics 641 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 Email: [email protected]

Frances Kamm

7 Lucius Littauer Professor of Philosophy & Public Policy Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts & Sciences Department of Philosophy, Harvard University Harvard University Emerson Hall 209a 25 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Email: [email protected]

Derek Parfit Senior Research Fellow (emeritus) All Souls College, Oxford Oxford OX1 4AL United Kingdom Email: [email protected]

T.M. Scanlon Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity Department of Philosophy, Harvard University Harvard University Emerson Hall 321 25 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Email: [email protected]

Teaching reference:

Arthur Applbaum Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values John F. Kennedy School of Government Mailbox 10 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Email: [email protected]

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