Brian Hedden PhD ’12
Professor,
Department of Philosophy
Brian Hedden PhD ’12 is a Professor of Philosophy at MIT, with a shared appointment in the Schwarzman College of Computing. He currently serves as co-Associate Dean for Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC). Professor Hedden’s research focuses on rationality and ethics, and he has written on a wide range of topics, including algorithmic fairness, legal standards of proof, collective action problems, and political polarization, among others. He is the author of “Reasons without Persons: Rationality, Identity, and Time” as well as numerous articles.
Hedden earned his AB from Princeton and his PhD from MIT, and he was a postdoc at Oxford and at the University of Sydney and then the Australian National University.
