Jon Rick, Ph.D.

Currently Teaching

• PHI 2010 Introduction to Philosophy
• PHH 3400 Modern Philosophy

Office Hours (Spring)

• Tuesdays 10:00am–12:00pm
• By appointment

Areas of Specialization

• Ethics
• Political Philosophy

Publications

"Conviction and Open-Mindedness: A Lesson on Political Revision from Adam Smith," in Ethics in Politics: The Rights and Obligations of Individual Political Agents, eds. Emily M. Crookston, David Killoren, & Jonathan Trerise, New York: Routledge (2017).
Review of Part 60 (on Adam Smith) of Terence Irwin's The Development of Ethics: A Historical and Critical Study, The Philosophical Forum 52.3 (Fall 2011) 309-10.
From Partial Passions to Moral Sentiments: Taking Up Adam Smith's Impartial Spectator Perspective. Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University (2009).
"Hume's and Smith's Partial Sympathies and Impartial Stances," Journal of Scottish Philosophy 5.2 (October 2007) 135-158.

Presentations & Workshops

"Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments," Center for the Core Curriculum, Columbia University, January 2016.
"Reconsidering Moral Impartiality," Ethics and Political Philosophy Colloquia, University of Toronto, February 2014.
Remarks on Gabriel Gottleib's "Constructivism without Constructivism," Illinois Philosophical Association, Urbana-Champaign, IL, November 2012.
"Forced to be Free?" Conference on "The Quest for Excellence: Liberal Arts and Core Texts", Association for Core Texts and Courses, New Haven, Connecticut, October 2011.
"Friendship, Love, and Other Apparent Moral Failings," Family Weekend Humanities Lecture, Columbia University, New York, NY, October 2011.
Panelist for "What Defines Fairness? Theories of Justice and Inequality," UNC Economics Club, Chapel Hill, NC, December 2009.
Workshop Participant for Chapel Hill/Duke Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Workshop on Non-Ideal Theory, Chapel Hill, NC, September 2009.
"The Impartial Spectator's Amour-Propre," The 250th Anniversary of The Theory of Moral Sentiments, International Adam Smith Society & The Adam Smith Review, Oxford, UK, January 2009.
Liberty Fund Colloquium on "Law in a Polite and Commercial Society: Smith's Lectures on Jurisprudence and Blackstone's Commentaries,", Bath, UK, January 2009.
"Can We Find Hume's Virtue of Justice on His Own Terms?" American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 2008.
"Sympathy and Engagement," Conference on Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, May 2006.
Comment on Nicholas Southwood's "Reasons, Reasonable Rejectability, Redundancy," Columbia/NYU Graduate Conference, New York, NY, March 2004.