Dr. Johann Frick

Biography

Johann Frick is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a B.Phil. from Oxford and a Ph.D. from Harvard. His main interests span moral political philosophy, practical reason, and applied ethics. Frick's current research focuses on key areas such as population ethics, ethics of risk, moral dilemmas, moral luck, and the notion of interpersonal justification, as well as ethics surrounding immigration and national partiality. He has published significant works including “Contractualism and Social Risk” in Philosophical Issues and Public Affairs in 2015, “What We Owe Hypocrites” in 2016, and “National Partiality, Immigration, and the Problem of Double-Jeopardy” in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy in 2020. His paper “Conditional Reasons and Procreation Asymmetry” appeared in Philosophical Perspectives in 2020, marking his continued contribution to the discourse in moral and political philosophy.

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