Mark Colyvan
Australian philosopher
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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.[2]
Mark Colyvan | |
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| Awards | Humboldt Fellow, ARC Future Fellowship |
| Education | |
| Thesis | Indispensability arguments in the philosophy of mathematics (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | J. J. C. Smart[1] |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | University of Sydney |
| Main interests | Philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, conservation biology |
| Website | http://www.colyvan.com/ |
Books
- The Indispensability of Mathematics, Oxford University Press, 2001
- Ecological Orbits: How Planets Move and Populations Grow, Oxford University Press, 2004
- An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, 2012
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