Rate My Professor Joshua Greene

Joshua D. Greene is the inaugural Alfred and Rebecca Lin Professor of Civil Discourse and Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, where he is also a member of the Center for Brain Science faculty. He earned an A.B. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1997 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University in 2002, with dissertation work supervised by David Lewis and Gilbert Harman. Following postdoctoral research at Princeton University in the Neuroscience of Cognitive Control Laboratory, Greene joined the Harvard faculty in 2006 as an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 2011 and to full professor of psychology in 2014.

Greene studies moral judgment and decision-making, with a focus on the psychology and neuroscience of moral dilemmas and the interplay between emotion and reason. He is the author of the book Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them, published in 2013. His honors include the Stanton Prize from the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and Harvard’s Roslyn Abramson Award for teaching excellence. Greene has been voted a favorite professor by multiple Harvard College graduating classes and has taught the General Education course Evolving Morality: From Primordial Soup to Superintelligent Machines.