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Prof. Brian Robert Hedden
Professor of Philosophy
Primary DLC
Department of Philosophy
MIT Room:
32-D808
bhedden@mit.edu
https://brianhedden.wixsite.com/home
Research Summary
Brian Hedden is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, with a shared appointment in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research focuses on how we ought to form beliefs and make decisions. He works in epistemology, decision theory, and ethics, including ethics of AI. He is the author of “Reasons without Persons: Rationality, Identity, and Time” (Oxford University Press, 2015) and articles on topics including collective action problems, legal standards of proof, algorithmic fairness, and political polarization, among others. Prior to joining MIT, he was a faculty member at the Australian National University and the University of Sydney, and a junior research fellow at Oxford. He received his B.A. From Princeton University in 2006 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 2012.
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