Brian Hedden
Professor
School of Philosophy
Australian National University
brian.hedden@gmail.com
About
I am a Professor of Philosophy at ANU.
Previously, I was a junior research fellow at Oxford and then a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney.
I earned my A.B. from Princeton and my PhD from MIT.
I work in epistemology and decision theory, as well as related areas of ethics and political philosophy.
Papers (click for preprints)
forthcoming
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
forthcoming
"Multidimensional Concepts and Disparate Scale Types"
(with Jacob M. Nebel)
The Philosophical Review
forthcoming
forthcoming
2023
"Counterfactual Decision Theory"
Mind 132 (527): 730-61.
2022
2021
"On Statistical Criteria of Algorithmic Fairness"
Philosophy and Public Affairs 49 (2):209-231.
2020
"Consequentialism and Collective Action"
Ethics, 130 (4):530-554.
2019
"Reasons, Coherence, and Group Rationality"
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 99 (3):581-604.
2019
"Legal Probabilism: A Qualified Defense"
(with Mark Colyvan)
Journal of Political Philosophy 27 (4):448-468.
2019
"Rationality and Synchronic Identity"
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97 (3):544-558.
2019
"Hindsight Bias is not a Bias"
Analysis 79 (1):43-52.
2017
"Summary" and "Reply to Critics"
For a symposium on Reasons without Persons.
Analysis 77 (3): 569-571 and 607-618.
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2017
Social Epistemology 31 (4):368-386.
2016
2016
"Mental Processes and Synchronicity"
Mind 125 (499):873-888.
2016
2016
"Does MITE Make Right?: Decision-Making Under Normative Uncertainty"
Oxford Studies in Metaethics vol 11: 102-128
2015
"A Defense of Objectivism about Evidential Support"
Canadian Journal of Philosophy 45 (5):716-743.
2015
"Believing and Acting: Voluntary Control and the Pragmatic Theory of Belief"
Logos and Episteme 6 (4):495-513.
2015
Mind 124 (494):449-491.
2015
"Options and Diachronic Tragedy"
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 90 (2):423-451.
2013
"Incoherence without Exploitability"
Noûs 47 (3):482-495.
2012
"Options and the Subjective Ought"
Philosophical Studies 158 (2):343-360.
Book Chapters
2022
"Individual Time-Bias and Social Discounting"
In Time in Action, ed. Carla Bagnoli, Routledge
2021
"Introduction to Part II: Rationality and Time"
In Derek Parfit's Reasons and Persons: An Introduction and Critical Inquiry, ed. Andrea Sauchelli, Routledge
Book Reviews
2020
"Review of Meghan Sullivan, Time Biases"
Philosophical Review 129(3): 495-499
2019
"Review of McHugh, Way, and Whiting (eds), Metaepistemology"
Notre Dame Philosophical Review