Brian Hedden

Brian Hedden

Research Affiliate

Brian Hedden is Associate Professor of Philosophy at ANU. Before joining ANU, he was a PhD student at MIT, a postdoc at Oxford, and a faculty member at the University of Sydney.

His research focuses on epistemology and decision theory, as well as related areas of ethics and political philosophy. He has recently written about our moral obligations in collective action problems like climate change mitigation, the use of statistical evidence in the law, and statistical criteria of fairness for algorithmic predictions in the criminal justice system and elsewhere.

He has been awarded two major competitive grants from the Australian Research Council: a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for a project on group rationality, and a Discovery Project (with Mark Colyvan) for a project on legal evidence. He is the author of Reasons without Persons (OUP 2015) as well as articles in Mind, Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Nous, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Philosophy and Public Affairs.