Rate My Professor Bryce Huebner

Bryce Huebner is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He received a B.A. in philosophy and history from Westminster College of Salt Lake City in 1998, an M.A. from Colorado State University in 2001, an M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008. Huebner conducted postdoctoral research as a fellow in the Cognitive Evolution Laboratory in Harvard University's Department of Psychology from 2007 to 2009 and as a research associate at the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University from 2008 to 2009. He joined Georgetown University in 2009 as an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, was promoted to associate professor with tenure, named Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor, and subsequently promoted to professor.

Huebner's research interests include Buddhist philosophy, particularly early Yogācāra, aesthetics, and philosophy of the cognitive, biological, and social sciences. He examines the role of allostatic regulation in biological cognition, the integration of Yogācāra Buddhist insights with cognitive science models, and the aesthetics of extreme metal and horror informed by Buddhist philosophy and cognitive science. Huebner authored Macrocognition: Distributed Minds and Collective Intentionality (Oxford University Press, 2013) and is editing The Philosophy of Daniel Dennett (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Selected publications feature "The Role of Emotion in Moral Psychology" (Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2009, with Dwyer and Hauser), "Genuinely Collective Emotions" (European Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2011), "Transactive Memory Reconstructed: Rethinking Wegner’s Research Program" (Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2016), "Do Emotions Play a Constitutive Role in Moral Cognition?" (Topoi, 2015), and contributions to handbooks on collective intentionality and experimental philosophy. With Mattia Gallotti, he co-edited a special issue of Philosophical Psychology on collective intentionality and socially extended minds (2017). His scholarship has received over 2,800 citations.