Brian Hedden
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 977755 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Brian Hedden |
| NOMBRES | Brian |
| APELLIDO | Hedden |
| FIRMA | HEDDEN B |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4463-9255 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Rational Partisan
Our politics are increasingly polarised. Polarisation takes many forms. One is increasing clustering, whereby people hold down-the-line liberal or conservative views on a wide range of orthogonal issues. Some philosophers think that such clustering is indicative of irrationality, and so finding yourself in one of several clusters gives you evidence that not all your political beliefs are true. I argue that the reverse is true, presenting a simple…
Dimensions of value
Value pluralists believe in multiple dimensions of value. What does betterness along a dimension have to do with being better overall? Any systematic answer begins with the Strong Pareto principle: one thing is overall better than another if it is better along one dimension and at least as good along all others. We defend Strong Pareto from recent counterexamples and use our discussion to develop a novel view of dimensions of value, one which put…
Multidimensional Adjectives
Multidimensional adjectives are ubiquitous in natural language.An adjective F is multidimensional just in case whether F applies to an object or pair of objects depends on how those objects stand with respect to multiple underlying dimensions of F-ness.Developing a semantics for multidimensional adjectives requires us to address the problem of dimensional aggregation: how do the application conditions of an adjective F in its positive and compara…
Multidimensional Concepts and Disparate Scale Types
Multidimensional concepts are everywhere, and they are important. Examples include moral value, welfare, scientific confirmation, democracy, and biodiversity. How, if at all, can we aggregate the underlying dimensions of a multidimensional concept F to yield verdicts about which things are Fer than which overall? Social choice theory can be used to model and investigate this aggregation problem. This article focuses on a particularly thorny probl…
Parity and Pareto
Pareto principles are at the core of ethics and decision theory. The Strong Pareto principle says that if one thing is better than another for someone and at least as good for everyone else, then the one is overall better than the other. But a host of famous figures express it differently, with ‘not worse’ in place of ‘at least as good.’ In the presence of parity (or incommensurability), this results in a strictly stronger Pareto principle, which…
On statistical criteria of algorithmic fairness
Predictive algorithms are playing an increasingly prominent role in society, being used to predict recidivism, loan repayment, job performance, and so on.With this increasing influence has come an increasing concern with the ways in which they might be unfair or biased against individuals in virtue of their race, gender, or, more generally, their group membership.Many purported criteria of algorithmic fairness concern statistical relationships be…
Consequentialism and Collective Action
Many consequentialists argue that you ought to do your part in collective action problems like climate change mitigation because (i) all such problems are triggering cases and (ii) doing your part in a triggering case maximizes expected value. I show that both (i) and (ii) are false: some triggering cases cannot be solved by appeal to expected value, since they involve infinities, and some collective action problems are not triggering cases, sinc…
Time Biases
Book Review| July 01 2020 Time Biases: A Theory of Rational Planning and Personal Persistence Sullivan, Meghan, Time Biases: A Theory of Rational Planning and Personal Persistence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 196 pp. Brian Hedden Brian Hedden University of Sydney Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 495–499. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-8311499 Cite Icon Cite Share Ic…
Legal Probabilism
Reasons, Coherence, and Group Rationality
If groups can have beliefs and other attitudes of their own, what determines which such attitudes the group rationally ought to have? A widespread presupposition is that group‐level beliefs should be a function of the beliefs of the group's members, and similarly for other attitudes. But a host of impossibility theorems show that no such aggregation function can satisfy intuitively attractive constraints while ensuring coherent group‐level attitu…
Reasons Without Persons
Brian Hedden defends a radical view about rationality, personal identity, and time. He argues that what it is rational to do should not depend on your past beliefs or actions, which are not part of your current perspective on the world. His impersonal approach holds that what rationality demands of you is solely determined by your evidence.
Options and Diachronic Tragedy
On statistical criteria of algorithmic fairness
Predictive algorithms are playing an increasingly prominent role in society, being used to predict recidivism, loan repayment, job performance, and so on.With this increasing influence has come an increasing concern with the ways in which they might be unfair or biased against individuals in virtue of their race, gender, or, more generally, their group membership.Many purported criteria of algorithmic fairness concern statistical relationships be…
Options and Diachronic Tragedy
Legal Probabilism
Parity and Pareto
Pareto principles are at the core of ethics and decision theory. The Strong Pareto principle says that if one thing is better than another for someone and at least as good for everyone else, then the one is overall better than the other. But a host of famous figures express it differently, with ‘not worse’ in place of ‘at least as good.’ In the presence of parity (or incommensurability), this results in a strictly stronger Pareto principle, which…
Reasons, Coherence, and Group Rationality
If groups can have beliefs and other attitudes of their own, what determines which such attitudes the group rationally ought to have? A widespread presupposition is that group‐level beliefs should be a function of the beliefs of the group's members, and similarly for other attitudes. But a host of impossibility theorems show that no such aggregation function can satisfy intuitively attractive constraints while ensuring coherent group‐level attitu…
Options and Diachronic Tragedy
Reasons Without Persons
Brian Hedden defends a radical view about rationality, personal identity, and time. He argues that what it is rational to do should not depend on your past beliefs or actions, which are not part of your current perspective on the world. His impersonal approach holds that what rationality demands of you is solely determined by your evidence.
Reasons, Coherence, and Group Rationality
If groups can have beliefs and other attitudes of their own, what determines which such attitudes the group rationally ought to have? A widespread presupposition is that group‐level beliefs should be a function of the beliefs of the group's members, and similarly for other attitudes. But a host of impossibility theorems show that no such aggregation function can satisfy intuitively attractive constraints while ensuring coherent group‐level attitu…
Legal Probabilism
Consequentialism and Collective Action
Many consequentialists argue that you ought to do your part in collective action problems like climate change mitigation because (i) all such problems are triggering cases and (ii) doing your part in a triggering case maximizes expected value. I show that both (i) and (ii) are false: some triggering cases cannot be solved by appeal to expected value, since they involve infinities, and some collective action problems are not triggering cases, sinc…
Time Biases
Book Review| July 01 2020 Time Biases: A Theory of Rational Planning and Personal Persistence Sullivan, Meghan, Time Biases: A Theory of Rational Planning and Personal Persistence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 196 pp. Brian Hedden Brian Hedden University of Sydney Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (3): 495–499. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-8311499 Cite Icon Cite Share Ic…
On statistical criteria of algorithmic fairness
Predictive algorithms are playing an increasingly prominent role in society, being used to predict recidivism, loan repayment, job performance, and so on.With this increasing influence has come an increasing concern with the ways in which they might be unfair or biased against individuals in virtue of their race, gender, or, more generally, their group membership.Many purported criteria of algorithmic fairness concern statistical relationships be…
Dimensions of value
Value pluralists believe in multiple dimensions of value. What does betterness along a dimension have to do with being better overall? Any systematic answer begins with the Strong Pareto principle: one thing is overall better than another if it is better along one dimension and at least as good along all others. We defend Strong Pareto from recent counterexamples and use our discussion to develop a novel view of dimensions of value, one which put…
Multidimensional Adjectives
Multidimensional adjectives are ubiquitous in natural language.An adjective F is multidimensional just in case whether F applies to an object or pair of objects depends on how those objects stand with respect to multiple underlying dimensions of F-ness.Developing a semantics for multidimensional adjectives requires us to address the problem of dimensional aggregation: how do the application conditions of an adjective F in its positive and compara…
Multidimensional Concepts and Disparate Scale Types
Multidimensional concepts are everywhere, and they are important. Examples include moral value, welfare, scientific confirmation, democracy, and biodiversity. How, if at all, can we aggregate the underlying dimensions of a multidimensional concept F to yield verdicts about which things are Fer than which overall? Social choice theory can be used to model and investigate this aggregation problem. This article focuses on a particularly thorny probl…
Parity and Pareto
Pareto principles are at the core of ethics and decision theory. The Strong Pareto principle says that if one thing is better than another for someone and at least as good for everyone else, then the one is overall better than the other. But a host of famous figures express it differently, with ‘not worse’ in place of ‘at least as good.’ In the presence of parity (or incommensurability), this results in a strictly stronger Pareto principle, which…
The Rational Partisan
Our politics are increasingly polarised. Polarisation takes many forms. One is increasing clustering, whereby people hold down-the-line liberal or conservative views on a wide range of orthogonal issues. Some philosophers think that such clustering is indicative of irrationality, and so finding yourself in one of several clusters gives you evidence that not all your political beliefs are true. I argue that the reverse is true, presenting a simple…
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