Rate My Professor Justin Bruner

Bruner has published extensively in leading philosophy journals. Selected key publications include "No harm done? An experimental approach to the non-identity problem" (with Matthew Kopec) in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association (2022), "Nash, bargaining and evolution" in Philosophy of Science (2021), "Inequality and majority rule" in Analysis (2020), "The varieties of impartiality, or, would an egalitarian endorse the veil?" (with Matthew Lindauer) in Philosophical Studies (2020), and "The evolution of the endowment effect" (with Toby Handfield and Frank Calegari) in Evolution and Human Behavior (2020). More recent articles feature "Too Much of a Good Thing? Positive Assortment and Social Dilemmas" in Biological Theory (2026), "A note on the evolution of social learning" in Biology and Philosophy (2025), "Assertions: Deterrent or Handicap? A Reply to Graham (2020)" in Episteme (2025), "How mixed strategies make a difference in the one-shot prisoner’s dilemma" in Analysis (2025), and "Revising Rules, Shifting Schemas: Toward an Expanded Formal Account of Norm Change" (with Ryan Muldoon) in Philosophy and Public Affairs (2025). He serves as Associate Editor for the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Bruner is the Principal Investigator on a U.S. Department of Education grant, "From Campus to Community: Civil Discourse as a Catalyst for Local Civic Renewal" (2026-2029), valued at $4 million, and a co-investigator on projects funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation focused on inclusive immigration, democratic revival, and liberalism.