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; Causation; 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). FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS Two-day workshop on Contractualism, Risk and Population Ethics, organized in my honor by the Einstein Ethics Group, Berlin, led by Prof. R.J. Wallace (Berkeley), (October 6-7, 2017, scheduled). Winner of the American Philosophical Association’s Gregory Kavka/University of California, Irvine Prize in Political Philosophy, 2017 for my paper “Contractualism and Social Risk”, Philosophy & Public Affairs 43.3 (2015): 175-223. Visiting fellow at the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto (fall 2017). Emily and Charles Carrier Prize for outstanding doctoral thesis on a subject in social, political, or moral philosophy, Harvard University, Department of Philosophy, 2015. Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University (2013-14). Edmond J. Safra Graduate Prize 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, 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). PUBLICATIONS “Future Persons and Victimless Wrongdoing” in Markus Rüther and Sebastian Muders (eds.) Worauf es ankommt: Derek Parfits praktische Philosophie in der Diskussion (Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, forthcoming in German). • With a response by Derek Parfit. “On the Survival of Humanity, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, special issue on Ethics and Future Generations (ed. Rahul Kumar), 47.2-3 (2017): 344-367. • Also forthcoming in a volume on Ethics and Future Generations with Routledge Press. 2 “What We Owe to Hypocrites: Contractualism and the Speaker-Relativity of Justification”, Philosophy & Public Affairs 44.4 (2016): 223-265. • Winner of Harvard University’s Francis Bowen Prize, conferred annually for the best essay upon a subject in moral or political philosophy”. “Contractualism and Social Risk”, Philosophy & Public Affairs 43.3 (2015): 175-223. • Winner of the American Philosophical Association’s Gregory Kavka/University of California, Irvine Prize in Political Philosophy, 2017. • Nominated for the Philosopher’s Annual 2015. “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: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (New York: 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.), Inequalities in Health: Concepts, Measures, and Ethics (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 OR UNDER REVIEW “Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry” “Causal Dependence and Chance: The New Problem of False Negatives”. “National Partiality, Immigration, and the Problem of Double-Jeopardy”. “Self-Knowledge and Structural Rationality”. WORKS IN PROGRESS “Probabilistic Causation, Moral Responsibility, and the Problem of Aggregate Effects” “Moral Dilemmas, Moral Luck, and Actualism about Evaluation” “Context-Dependent Betterness and the Mere Addition Paradox”. “The Procreation Asymmetry and the Specter of Antinatalism”. “Dominating Reasons”. “The Deep Problem of Pluralism”. 3 TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS “TBD”, Workshop on Ethics and Uncertainty, Centre for Moral and Political Philosophy, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem (June 2018, scheduled). “TBD”, Political Philosophy Speaker Series (convened by Prof. Joseph Raz), Columbia University (November 2017, scheduled). “TBD”, Harvard Political Theory Colloquium, Harvard University (November 2017, scheduled) “TBD”, Workshop on Contractualism, Risk and Population Ethics (organized in my honor), Einstein Ethics Group, Berlin (October 6-7, 2017). “Probabilistic Causation, Moral Responsibility, and the Problem of Aggregate Effects”, Workshop on Responding to an Uncertain Future: Normative Theories of Risk and Climate Change Policy”, University of Graz (June 2017, scheduled). Roundtable discussion on Individual v. Statistical Lives, and Ex Ante v. Ex Post, Institute for Law and Philosophy, University of San Diego School of Law (April 2017). “Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry”, Conference on New Work in Population Ethics, Duke University (April 2017). “Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry”, General Colloquium, NYU Department of Philosophy (April 2017). “Probabilistic Causation, Moral Responsibility, and the Problem of Aggregate Effects”, Pacific APA (April 2017). “Response to Blake and Kumar”, Kavka Prize Symposium (organized in my honor), Pacific APA (April 2017). “Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry”, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (March 2017). “National Partiality, Immigration, and the Problem of Double-Jeopardy”, LSR Faculty Seminar, Center for Human Values, Princeton University (March 2017). “How to Defend the Procreation Asymmetry Without Abandoning the Non-Identity Intuition”, Conference on Normative Ethics and Welfare Economics, Harvard Business School (October 2016). “Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry”, Department of Philosophy, York University (October 2016). “Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry”, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto (October 2016). “On the Survival of Humanity: Climate Change, Population Size, and Existential Risk”, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto (October 2016). “On the Survival of Humanity”, Bechtel Workshop on Moral and Political Philosophy, University of Toronto (June 2016). 4 “Climate Change, Population Size, and Existential Risk”, Conference on Philosophy and Climate Change, Princeton University (April 2016). “Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry”, Workshop on Deontological Approaches to Population Ethics, Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm (April 2016). “National Partiality, Immigration, and the Problem of Double-Jeopardy”, conference in honor of T.M. Scanlon’s retirement, Harvard University (April 2016). “On the Survival of Humanity”, LSR Faculty Seminar, Center for Human Values, Princeton University (April 2016). “Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry”, Eastern APA meeting, Washington, DC (January 2016). “Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry”, MIT Political Theory Workshop (November 2015). “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”, LSR Faculty Seminar, Center for Human Values, Princeton University (April 2015).