Research Expertise and Interest

moral philosophy, political philosophy, practical reason, applied ethics

Research Description

Johann Frick is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy.  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), “National Partiality, Immigration, and the Problem of Double-Jeopardy” (Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy 2020) and “Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry” (Philosophical Perspectives, 2020).