New Head of Philosophy

Welcome to Professor Alan Hajek who is the new Head of the School of Philosophy.

Professor Hájek's research interests include the philosophical foundations of probability and decision theory, epistemology, the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and received the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences 2012 Award for Excellence in Supervision.

Professor 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), where he received the Associated Students of California Institute of Technology Teaching Award (2004). He has also spent time as a visiting professor at MIT (1995), Auckland University (2000), and Singapore Management University (2005). Professor Hájek joined the Philosophy Program at RSSS, ANU, as Professor of Philosophy in February 2005.