Mark Colyvan

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Mark Colyvan is affiliated with the following schools: University of Sydney, University of Tasmania, Australian National University

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According to Wikipedia, Mark Colyvan is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is a former president of the Australasian Association of Philosophy. Colyvan is known for his research on philosophy of mathematics.

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Mark Colyvan's Published Works

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A TAXONOMY AND TREATMENT OF UNCERTAINTY FOR ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION BIOLOGY (2002) (758)
The Indispensability of Mathematics (2001) (219)
Buying into conservation: intrinsic versus instrumental value. (2009) (190)
The biodiversity bank cannot be a lending bank (2010) (170)
Some practical suggestions for improving engagement between researchers and policy‐makers in natural resource management (2008) (159)
An Inferential Conception of the Application of Mathematics (2011) (149)
:The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law, and the Environment. (2008) (139)
A formal model for consensus and negotiation in environmental management. (2006) (134)
The Explanatory Power of Phase Spaces (2007) (128)
There is No Easy Road to Nominalism (2010) (106)
Avoiding bio‐perversity from carbon sequestration solutions (2012) (102)
Laws of nature and laws of ecology (2003) (95)
Indispensability arguments in the philosophy of mathematics (1997) (94)
Mathematics and Aesthetic Considerations in Science (2002) (92)
A proposal for fuzzy International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) categories and criteria (2000) (91)
Is it a Crime to Belong to a Reference Class (2001) (80)
Is Probability the Only Coherent Approach to Uncertainty? (2008) (78)
How Mathematics Can Make a Difference (2017) (75)
Can the Eleatic Principle be Justified? (1998) (67)
Ecological Orbits: How Planets Move and Populations Grow (2004) (66)
Modelling the moral dimension of decisions (2010) (65)
The conservation game (2011) (64)
An Introduction to Logic (2nd Ed) (2001) (59)
A Topological Sorites (2010) (58)
Indexing and Mathematical Explanation (2011) (53)
Philosophical issues in ecology: Recent trends and future directions (2009) (50)
Disagreement behind the veil of ignorance (2014) (50)
Heaps of Gluts and Hyde‐ing the Sorites (2001) (48)
Problems With the Argument From Fine Tuning (2005) (46)
The ontological commitments of inconsistent theories (2008) (44)
Logical Non-Apriorism and the 'Law' of Non-Contradiction (2004) (41)
Paraconsistent vagueness: Why not? (2008) (41)
The treatment of uncertainty and the structure of the IUCN threatened species categories (1999) (39)
Conceptual Contingency and Abstract Existence (2000) (38)
Road Work Ahead: Heavy Machinery on the Easy Road (2012) (37)
Scientific realism and mathematical nominalism: A marriage made in hell (2006) (36)
RELATIVE EXPECTATION THEORY (2008) (36)
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics (2012) (36)
The Miracle of Applied Mathematics (2001) (34)
Right Decisions or Happy Decision‐makers? (2007) (32)
JUST WHAT IS VAGUENESS (2012) (30)
The philosophical significance of Cox's theorem (2004) (29)
Idealisations in normative models (2013) (28)
Confirmation Theory and Indispensability (1999) (26)
Is platonism a bad bet (1998) (26)
Applying Inconsistent Mathematics (2011) (25)
In Defence of Indispensability (1998) (24)
The Galilean turn in population ecology (2003) (23)
Legal Probabilism: A Qualified Defence (2019) (23)
Vagueness and Truth (2009) (23)
Paradox without satisfaction (2003) (22)
Looking for Contradictions (2001) (22)
Fuzzy Sets and Threatened Species Classification (2000) (21)
Making Ado Without Expectations (2016) (20)
Time enough for explanation (2016) (19)
Resolving Disagreement Through Mutual Respect (2013) (19)
The natural environment is valuable but not infinitely valuable (2010) (19)
A Counterfactual Approach to Explanation in Mathematics (2020) (19)
Analogical Thinking in Ecology: Looking beyond Disciplinary Boundaries (2010) (17)
Voting Systems for Environmental Decisions (2014) (16)
Yablo's Paradox and Referring to Infinite Objects (2003) (14)
Legal Decisions and the Reference Class Problem (2007) (14)
Two Flavours of Mathematical Explanation (2018) (14)
No Expectations (2006) (13)
Who’s Afraid of Inconsistent Mathematics? (2008) (13)
The Prospects for a Monist Theory of Non-causal Explanation in Science and Mathematics (2020) (12)
Mathematics: Truth and Fiction? (1999) (11)
Naturalism and the paradox of revisability (2006) (8)
Environmental Ethics and Decision Theory: Fellow Travellers or Bitter Enemies? (2011) (7)
Ontological Independence as the Mark of the RealJody Azzouni. Deflating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. viii + 241. ISBN 0-19-515988-8. (2005) (7)
Contrastive Empiricism and Indispensability (1999) (7)
A Challenge for Evidence-Based Policy (2017) (6)
Russell on Metaphysical Vagueness (2001) (5)
Mathematical and Physical Continuity (2008) (5)
A philosopher's view of theory: A response to Gorelick (2011) (5)
The Undeniable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Special Sciences (2014) (5)
The Ins and Outs of Mathematical Explanation (2018) (5)
THE MATERNAL EFFECT HYPOTHESIS (2003) (5)
Probability and Ecological Complexity (2005) (5)
Value of information and monitoring in conservation biology (2016) (5)
Review of M Steiner, 'The Application of Mathematics as a Philosophical Problem' (2000) (4)
Environmental Philosophy: Beyond Environmental Ethics (2012) (4)
Explanation impossible (2021) (4)
Reviews-Mathematics as a Science of Patterns (1998) (4)
MATHEMATICS AND THE WORLD (2009) (4)
Mathematics: Truth and Fiction? Review of Mark Balaguer's Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics (1999) (3)
Addressing Risk in Conditions of Uncertainty, Ignorance, and Partial Knowledge (2017) (3)
Causal Explanation and Ontological Commitment (1999) (3)
Mating, Dating, and Mathematics (2010) (3)
Response to Sagoff (2009) (3)
Dealing with vagueness in threatened species classification (1999) (2)
The Mathematics of Love (2016) (2)
ON EARTH AS IT IS IN THE HEAVENS (2003) (2)
Special Issue Article: Adaptive management for biodiversity conservation in an uncertain world The conservation game (2011) (1)
The Prospects for a Monist Theory of Non-causal Explanation in Science and Mathematics (2020) (1)
Editorial to “Reduction and the Special Sciences” (2010) (1)
The End Mystery (2019) (1)
The Quinean Backdrop (2001) (1)
Reviews-Philosophy of Mathematics: Structure and Ontology (1998) (1)
Mark Balaguer. Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics (1999) (1)
Review of P Maddy Naturalism in Mathematics (1999) (1)
Ranking in Threatened Species Classification: Reply to Todd (2001) (1)
Review of M Resnik 'Mathematics as a Science of Patterns' and S Shapiro 'Philosophy of Mathematics' (1998) (1)
Meta-uncertainty and the proof paradoxes (2023) (1)
The applicability of mathematics (2012) (0)
Erratum to: Resolving Disagreement Through Mutual Respect (2014) (0)
Review of J R Brown, Philosophy of Mathematics (2002) (0)
Field's Fictionalism (2001) (0)
Philosophy's Role in the Taming of Uncertainty (2000) (0)
A rose by any other name (2012) (0)
Mind Association Mathematics and Aesthetic Considerations in Science (2008) (0)
Idealisations in normative models (2012) (0)
The Miracle of Applied Mathematics 1. the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics (2001) (0)
The Limits of Subtraction (2017) (0)
SHADOWS ON THE WALL (2003) (0)
Growing biodiversity banking (2011) (0)
THE END OF MYSTERY (2019) (0)
Quaternions and Space-Time (1999) (0)
Disagreement about Values (2010) (0)
The Empirical Nature of Mathematical Knowledge (2001) (0)
criticisms are presented without advancing Platonist agenda at every turn. For instance, at one point Burgess and Rosen point out that (1990) (0)
DOES ECOLOGY HAVE LAWS (2003) (0)
Fiction, metaphor, and partial truths (2012) (0)
The Ins and Outs of Mathematical Explanation (2018) (0)
Review of H G Dales and G Oliveri (eds) Truth in Mathematics (1999) (0)
In Defence of Indispensabil ity (1998) (0)
PREDATOR—PREY INTERACTIONS AND THE PERIOD OF CYCLING (2003) (0)
Erratum to: Resolving Disagreement Through Mutual Respect (2013) (0)
EQUILIBRIUM AND ACCELERATED DEATH (2003) (0)
Marcus Giaquinto. The search for certainty: a philosophical account of foundations of mathematics. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2002, xii + 286 pp. (2004) (0)
Resolving Disagreement Through Mutual Respect (2012) (0)
Maddy's Objections (2001) (0)
Mathematics and Its Applications (2001) (0)
The Eleatic Principle (2001) (0)
Mathematics and its philosophy (2012) (0)
The limits of mathematics (2012) (0)
Volume 14 List of Contributors (2005) (0)
Explanation impossible (2020) (0)
A Challenge for Evidence-Based Policy (2016) (0)
Naturalising Normativity (2005) (0)
Disagreement behind the veil of ignorance (2013) (0)
Non-naturalistic moral explanation (2019) (0)
Review of J P Burgess and G Rosen A Subject With No Objects (2001) (0)
The Power of Mathematical Notation. (2020) (0)
Alan Saunders (1954–2012) (2012) (0)
James Robert Brown, "Philosophy of Mathematics: An Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures." Reviewed by (2002) (0)
Epilogue: desert island theorems (2012) (0)

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