Rate My Professor Hayden Wilkinson

Hayden Wilkinson is a Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia. He earned his PhD in 2021 from the Australian National University School of Philosophy, where his dissertation, titled 'Infinite aggregation,' addressed challenges in moral decision-making involving infinite value. Prior to his current role, Wilkinson served as a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford's Global Priorities Institute. His academic career focuses on philosophy, with expertise spanning normative ethics, decision theory, population ethics, infinite value theory, axiology, economics and ethics, and infinite decision theory. Additional interests include applied ethics, consumer ethics, biomedical ethics, philosophy of economics, charitable giving, and effective altruism. He contributes as a PhilPapers Editor for areas such as Decision Theory and Ethics, Existential Risk, Longtermism, and Axiology.

Wilkinson's research explores complex issues in ethical aggregation, risk in infinite contexts, and practical implications for moral decision-making. Key publications include 'In Defense of Fanaticism' in Ethics (2022), which defends extreme moral views under uncertainty; 'Market Harms and Market Benefits' in Philosophy and Public Affairs (2022), examining ethical dimensions of market interactions; 'Can risk aversion survive the long run?' in The Philosophical Quarterly (2023); 'Infinite Aggregation and Risk' in Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2023); and 'The Moral Inefficacy of Carbon Offsetting' co-authored with Tyler M. John and Amanda Askell in Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2024). Other notable works are 'Aggregation in an Infinite, Relativistic Universe' in Erkenntnis (2024), 'Infinite aggregation: expanded addition' in Philosophical Studies (2020), and forthcoming pieces such as 'Flummoxing expectations' in Noûs (2025), 'Egyptology and fanaticism' in Philosophical Studies, and 'Longtermism in an infinite world' co-authored with Christian Tarsney in Essays on Longtermism (2025). His scholarship has garnered citations exceeding 190, influencing discussions in population ethics, bioethics, and philosophy of time.