Alan Hájek

Biography

Alan Hájek studied statistics and mathematics at the University of Melbourne (B.Sc. (Hons). 1982), where he won the Dwight Prize in Statistics. He took an M.A. in philosophy at the University of Western Ontario (1986) and a Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton University (1993), winning the Porter Ogden Jacobus fellowship. He has taught at the University of Melbourne (1990) and at Caltech (1992-2004). He has also spent time as a visiting professor at MIT (1995), Auckland University (2000), and Singapore Management University (2005). He joined the Philosophy Program at RSSS, ANU, as Professor of Philosophy in 2005.

He was the President of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, 2009-10. Hájek’s research interests include the philosophical foundations of probability and decision theory, epistemology, the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. Two of his articles were selected by The Philosopher’s Annual as “one of the ten best articles in philosophy” in the previous year: “Waging War on Pascal’s Wager” (2004), and “Degrees of Commensurability and the Repugnant Conclusion”, with Wlodek Rabinowicz (2022).