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5058
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Overview

Mark Colyvan is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and conducts research spanning multiple areas within arts, humanities, and social sciences.

The primary fields of study for their work include:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, the subfields of study frequently addressed are:

  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Law
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science

The main research topics covered in their publications are:

  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Quantum Mechanics and Applications
  • Jury Decision Making Processes
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Law in Society and Culture

Mark Colyvan has contributed multiple papers across various academic journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • "The Prospects for a Monist Theory of Non-causal Explanation in Science and Mathematics", 2020, Erkenntnis
  • "Explanation impossible", 2020, Philosophical Studies
  • "Meta-uncertainty and the proof paradoxes", 2023, Philosophical Studies
  • "Do conspiracy-theory interventions rest on a mistake?", 2025, Synthese

The venues of publication where Colyvan has appeared most frequently are:

  • Philosophical Studies
  • Erkenntnis
  • Synthese

Collaborations with other researchers are part of their scholarly activity. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Alexander Reutlinger
  • Karolina Krzyżanowska
  • Katie Steele
  • Sam Baron
  • Michael D. Resnik

Best Publications

  • A TAXONOMY AND TREATMENT OF UNCERTAINTY FOR ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

    Helen M. Regan;Mark Colyvan;Mark A. Burgman

  • The Indispensability of Mathematics

    Mark Colyvan

  • Buying into conservation: intrinsic versus instrumental value

    James Justus;James Justus;Mark Colyvan;Helen Regan;Lynn A. Maguire

  • The biodiversity bank cannot be a lending bank

    Sarah A. Bekessy;Brendan A. Wintle;David B. Lindenmayer;Michael A. Mccarthy

  • Ecological Orbits : How Planets Move and Populations Grow

    Lev R. Ginzburg;Mark Colyvan

  • An Inferential Conception of the Application of Mathematics

    Otávio Bueno;Mark Colyvan

  • Some practical suggestions for improving engagement between researchers and policy‐makers in natural resource management

    Philip G Gibbons;Charlie A Zammit;Kara Nicole Youngentob;Hugh P Possingham

  • A formal model for consensus and negotiation in environmental management

    Helen M. Regan;Mark Colyvan;Lisa Markovchick-Nicholls

  • The Explanatory Power of Phase Spaces

    Aidan Lyon;Mark Colyvan

  • Avoiding bio-perversity from carbon sequestration solutions

    David Lindenmayer;David Lindenmayer;Kristin B Hulvey;Richard Hobbs;Richard Hobbs;Mark Colyvan

  • There is No Easy Road to Nominalism

    Mark Colyvan

  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics

    Mark Colyvan

  • Laws of nature and laws of ecology

    M. Colyvan;L. R. Ginzburg

  • Mathematics and aesthetic considerations in science

    Mark Colyvan

  • Is it a Crime to Belong to a Reference Class

    Mark Colyvan;Helen M. Regan;Scott Ferson

  • How Mathematics Can Make a Difference

    Samuel Thomas Baron;Samuel Thomas Baron;Samuel Thomas Baron;Mark Colyvan;Mark Colyvan;Mark Colyvan;David Ripley;David Ripley;David Ripley

  • The Miracle of Applied Mathematics

    Mark Colyvan

  • Indispensability arguments in the philosophy of mathematics

    Mark Colyvan

  • Probability and Ecological Complexity

    Mark Colyvan

  • Can the eleatic principle be justified

    Mark Colyvan

  • Mathematics and Its Applications

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  • The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law, and the Environment.Second Edition.ByMark Sagoff. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. $80.00 (hardcover); $27.99 (paper). xi + 266 p.; index. 978‐0‐521‐86755‐9 (hc); 978‐0‐521‐68713‐3 (pb). 2008.

    Mark Colyvan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jc Beall
Jc Beall University of Notre Dame
Graham Priest
Graham Priest The Graduate Center, CUNY
David E. Salt
David E. Salt University of Nottingham
Paul E. Griffiths
Paul E. Griffiths University of Sydney

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