Rate My Professor Alan Hájek

Alan Hájek is Professor of Philosophy in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University, where he joined the Philosophy Program in the Research School of Social Sciences as Professor of Philosophy in 2005. He earned a B.Sc. (Hons) in statistics and mathematics from the University of Melbourne in 1982, winning the Dwight Prize in Statistics. He received an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario in 1986 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University in 1993, where he was awarded the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship. Earlier in his career, Hájek taught at the University of Melbourne in 1990 and served on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology from 1992 to 2004, receiving the Associated Students of California Institute of Technology Teaching Award in 2004. He has held visiting professor positions at MIT in 1995, the University of Auckland in 2000, and Singapore Management University in 2005. Since 2007, he has been a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and served as President of the Australasian Association of Philosophy from 2009 to 2010.