Johann Frick

Johann Frick is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He works in moral and political philosophy, practical reason, and applied ethics, with current research focusing on population ethics, the ethics of risk, moral dilemmas and moral luck, interpersonal justification, and the ethics of immigration and national partiality. His publications include “Contractualism and Social Risk” and “What We Owe to Hypocrites” in Philosophy & Public Affairs, “On the Survival of Humanity” in Canadian Journal of Philosophy, “National Partiality, Immigration, and the Problem of Double-Jeopardy” in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, “Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry” in Philosophical Perspectives, and “Authority Without the Duty to Obey” in Mind. He is currently completing a monograph, The Two Faces of Morality, on relational and non-relational morality. He is especially interested in the role philosophy can play in a liberal education that prepares students for democratic citizenship, serious moral reflection, and intellectually meaningful lives beyond the university. He is particularly concerned with how these aims can be sustained in a time of rapid technological change, including the challenge posed by generative AI.