Johann Frick

(BA, B.Phil., Oxon.; Ph.D., Harvard), Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His main interests span moral and political philosophy, practical reason, and applied ethics. His current work focuses on population ethics, the ethics of risk, moral dilemmas and moral luck, the notion of interpersonal justification, and the ethics of immigration and national partiality. Publications include “Contractualism and Social Risk” (Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2015), “What We Owe to Hypocrites” (Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2016), “On the Survival of Humanity” (Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2017), “National Partiality, Immigration, and the Problem of Double-Jeopardy” (Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, 2020), “Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry” (Philosophical Perspectives, 2021), “Context-Dependent Betterness and the Mere Addition Paradox” (in Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit (OUP, 2022), ed. Jeff McMahan et al.) and, with Daniel Viehoff, “Authority Without the Duty to Obey” (Mind, 2023). He is currently working on a book on relational and non-relational morality, tentatively entitled The Two Faces of Morality.