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 “Contractualism and Social Risk”, forthcoming in Philosophy & Public Affairs. “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 “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). “Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry”, MANCEPT Conference, panel on “New Work on Population Ethics”, University of Manchester (September 2015). “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”