Me

Kacper Kowalczyk

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Health at Rutgers University and a visiting scholar in the Rutgers Philosophy Department. From 2020 to 2024, I was a lecturer and research fellow in the Philosophy Department at University College London.

I received a DPhil in Philosophy from Oxford in 2021, a BPhil in Philosophy from Oxford in 2016, and a BA in Philosophy from Cambridge in 2014.

I am interested in population ethics, personal identity, equality, aggregation, risk, and decision theory.

You can email me at kacper.kowalczyk [at] rutgers.edu.

I am also on PhilPapers. I record most of my referee work on Web of Science.


Papers

Ex-Ante Pareto and the Opaque-Identity Puzzle. (With Johan Gustafsson.) Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming. [abstract]

Saving Fanaticism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming. [abstract]

Opaque Options. (With Aidan Penn.) Philosophical Studies, vol. 181, no. 8, August 2024, pp. 1837–1849. [abstract]

Risk, Non-Identity, and Extinction. The Monist, vol. 107, no. 2, April 2024, pp. 146-156. (With Nikhil Venkatesh.) [abstract]

A New Puzzle for Limited Aggregation. Analysis, vol. 84, no. 2, April 2024, pp. 258–266. [abstract]

People in Suitcases. Journal of Moral Philosophy, vol. 20, no. 1-2, March 2023, pp. 3-30. [abstract]

Johnston versus Johnston. Synthese, vol. 200, issue 2, April 2022, article 167. [abstract]

Transfinitely Transitive Value. Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 72, no. 1, January 2022, pp. 108–34. [abstract]


Thesis

Persons, Populations, and Value. DPhil thesis, University of Oxford, 2020. [abstract]


Talks

Aggregation and Risk. IHME/Rutgers Population-level Bioethics Consultation and Workshop, Seattle, July 2024.

Non-Consequentialist Longtermism. ISUS conference, London, June 2024.

Risk, Ordinary and Existential. Joint work with Nikhil Venkatesh. Seoul National University, April 2024.

Towards Full Aggregation. Workshop on Aggregation, Fribourg, December 2023.

Deontic Cyclicity. Joint work with Tomi Francis. Workshop on Social Contract Theory and Dynamic Decision Theory, Stockholm, December 2023.

A New Puzzle for Limited Aggregation. Aristotelian Society Open Session, London, July 2023.

Longtermism as Fairness. International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Rome, July 2023.

A New Puzzle for Limited Aggregation. Society for Applied Philosophy Conference, Antwerp, June 2023.

Longtermism as Fairness. LSE-GPI Workshop on Longtermism, London, May 2023.

A New Argument for Fanaticism. Workshop on Unboundedness, Austin, November 2022.

A New Argument for Fanaticism. Workshop on Welfare, Saarbrücken, June 2022.

Allais Preferences are Bad for You. Risk Attitudes Workshop, Princeton, May 2021.

Yet Another Argument Against Anti-Aggregation. Formal Ethics Conference, Ghent, June 2019.

Equality and Population Size. Princeton Population Ethics Graduate Conference, May 2019.

Intrinsic Value, Extrinsic Identity. ISUS conference, Karlsruhe, July 2018.

Intrinsic Value, Extrinsic Identity. CEPPA Graduate Conference, St Andrews, February 2018.


In Polish

Longtermizm, czyli pojutrze ludzkości. Znak, January 2023, issue 812.

Discussed on Tok FM (here, here) and in Gazeta Wyborcza (here, here).

Człowiek, gatunek międzyplanetarny. Znak, January 2023, issue 812 (conversation with Nick Bostrom).

Czy granice mają moralne znaczenie? Znak, February 2022, issue 801 (conversation with David Miller).

Dobroczynna prokreacja. Znak, October 2017, issue 749 (conversation with Julian Savulescu).



Thanks to Todd Karhu for allowing me to use his website template.