5 July 2009: 'A Metaphysically Neutral Account of Mathematics in Science', presented at the
Metaphysics of Science Conference at the
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
28 May 2009: 'Consensus, Compromise, and the "Wisdom" of Crowds', presented to the Department of Philosophy,
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
17 December 2008: 'The Philosophical Problem of Applied Mathematics', invited speaker at the symposium "Unreasonable Effectiveness? Historical Origins and Philosophical Problems for Applied Mathematics"
at All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
30 September 2008: 'Consensus Among Experts', presented at the Society for Risk Analysis Conference
at ANU, Canberra, Australia.
29 September 2008: 'Aggregating Beliefs: Consensus versus Compromise', presented at the Society for Risk Analysis workshop
"Philosophical Reflections on Risk Management and Complex Systems" at ANU, Canberra, Australia.
18 September 2008: 'The Relativity of Value', presented to the Russellian Society at University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
13 July 2008: 'The Ontological Commitments of Inconsistent Theories', plenary address at the
Fourth World Congress of Paraconsistency at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
7 July 2008: 'The Mating Game: A Philosopher Looks at Mating and Dating', presented at the
Heart of Philosophy Cafe, Melbourne, Australia.
21 May 2008: 'Do the Laws of Ecology Lie?', presented to the Genes-to-Geoscience Research Centre
at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
24 April 2008: 'Applying Inconsistent Mathematics', presented at the
New Waves in Philosophy of Mathematics conference, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.
10 April 2008: 'What's Maths Got to Do with It?', presented at the Sydney-Tilburg
Reduction and the Special Sciences conference, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
16 February 2008: 'Comments on Stephen Gaukroger's "The Problem of Calculus"', presented at the
Baroque Science conference, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
25 October 2007: 'Environmental Philosophy: Beyond Environmental Ethics', inaugural professorial lecture to the University of Sydney Arts Association, Sydney, Australia.
27 September 2007: 'Relative Expectation Theory', presented to the Department of Philosophy at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
26 September 2007: 'Idealisations in Normative Models', presented to the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
19 September 2007: 'Probability in Law', presented to the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
18 September 2007: 'What is and What is Not', an open lecture at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
25 July 2007: 'There's No Easy Road to Nominalism', presented to
the Russellian Society at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
3 July 2007: 'What Is the Principle of Uniform Solution and Why Should We Buy It?', presented at the
2007 Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference at
the University of New England, Armidale, Australia.
30 June 2007: 'The Lore of Large Numbers' presented at
the ANU-Sydney-Kyoto Probability Workshop,
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
19 May 2007: 'What is the Principle of Uniform Solution and Why Should We Buy It?' presented at
the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
11 May 2007: 'Vagueness and Truth', presented to
the Department of Philosophy at the University of Miami, Miami, USA.
7 May 2007: 'Formal Models of Consensus', presented in the workshop on "Methodological Problems in the Social Sciences"
in the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands.
3 May 2007: 'Probability and Law', presented to the Departments of Theoretical and Practical Philosophy at Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
25 April 2007: 'The Indispensability of Mathematics', presented to the Logic and Philosophy of Science Group at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
23 April 2007: 'Relative Expectation Theory', presented to the Department of Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
16 April 2007: 'Mathematics: Myth, Metaphor, or Merely Misunderstood?', presented at the
34th Annual Dubrovnik Philosophy of Science Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
28 March 2007: 'Vagueness and Truth', presented to the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
18 March 2007: 'What Is and What Is Not', plenary lecture in the Edge of
Reason public lecture series at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.
6 March 2007: 'What Is the Principle of Uniform Solution and Why Should We Buy It?',
presented to the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
9 January 2007: 'Vagueness and Truth', invited presentation at the Truth and Reality conference at the University of Otago,
Dunedin, New Zealand.
9 October 2006: 'Do the Laws of Ecology Lie?' presented in the History and Philosophy of Science seminar series at
the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
10 September 2006: 'Idealisations in Normative Models' presented at the University of New England Rationality and Risk conference,
Coffs Harbour, Australia.
25 August 2006: 'Probability in Law' presented to the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
18 July 2006: 'Risk and the Limitations of (Classical) Probability Theory' presented at the Australian Society for Risk Analysis Conference
at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
2 July 2006: 'What's Maths Got to Do with It?' presidential address at the 2006 Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference at
the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
19 May 2006: 'Relative Expectation Theory' presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy,
University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.
9 May 2006: 'Idealisations in Normative Models' presented to the Philosophy Department at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, U.S.A.
28 April 2006: 'Relative Expectation Theory' presented to the Philosophy Department at the University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.
13 April 2006: 'What's Maths Got to Do with It?' presented at the 33rd Annual Dubrovnik Philosophy of Science Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
4 March 2006: 'Relative Expectation Theory', presented at the ANU Probability Conference, Canberra, Australia.
20 January 2006: 'Modelling the Moral Dimension of Decisions' presented to the Philosophy Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, U.S.A.
13 January 2006: 'Relative Expectation Theory' presented to the Philosophy Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
13 December 2005: 'Modelling the Moral Dimension of Decisions' presented to the Philosophy Department at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
5 December 2005: 'Relative Expectation Theory', presented at the 2005 Australasaian Association of Philosophy
Conference (New Zealand Division) at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
7 November 2005: 'Rationality in Action', presented at the University of Queensland Linguistics and Philosophy Cogitamus
at Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia.
10 October 2005: 'Do the Laws of Ecology Lie?', invited seminar presentation in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Adelaide,
Adelaide, Australia.
5 September 2005: 'Critical Literacy in a Thinking Society', invited keynote presentation at the
Festival of Thinking at Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia.
23 August 2005: 'Dutch Books and Bayesian Representation Theorems', presented at the
Prague International Colloquium on Dutch Book Arguments
at the Centre for Higher Education Studies, Prague, Czech Republic.
12 August 2005: 'Dutch Books and Bayesian Representation Theorems', presented to the Philosophy Program at the
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
5 July 2005: 'Modelling the Moral Dimension of Decisions', presented at the 2005 Australasian Association of Philosophy
Conference at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. (Joint presentation with Damian Cox and Katie Steele.)
4 June 2005: 'Modelling the Moral Dimension of Decisions', presented at the 2005 UNE-UQ Philosophy Workshop at
the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. (Joint presentation with Damian Cox and Katie Steele.)
27 May 2005: 'Do the Laws of Ecology Lie?' invited seminar presentation to the CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems group,
Canberra, Australia.
9 May 2005: 'An Argument for Pluralism about Rationality', invited seminar presentation in the Department of Philosophy
at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
2 March 2005: 'Good Decisions or Happy Decision Makers?'
presented at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems Working Group on Decision Making for
Complex Problems in Conservation, at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
27 February 2005: 'A Formal Model of Consensus and Negotiation in
Environmental Management' presented at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics
and Statistics of Complex Systems Working Group on Decision Making for
Complex Problems in Conservation, at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
24 January 2005: 'Do the Laws of Ecology Lie?' presented to the Centre for Philosophy at the University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K.
6 January 2005: 'Do the Laws of Ecology Lie?' presented to the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, U.S.A.
29 December 2004: Invited commentator at a special symposium on the philosophy of mathematics at the
Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Boston, U.S.A.
21 October 2004: 'Paradoxes: Experiments in Philosophy' presented to the University of Queensland Student Philosophy Association,
Brisbane, Australia.
23 September 2004: 'Do the Laws of Ecology Lie?' presented to the Philosophy Program of the
Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
3 September 2004: 'What is Population Ecology?' presented at the Ecology Centre at the University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia.
30 July 2004: 'No Expectations: An Argument for Pluralism about Rationality' presented to the Philosophy Program at the
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
8 July 2004: 'Scientific Realism and Mathematical Nominalism: A Marriage Made in Hell'
presented at the 2004 British Society for the Philosophy of Science Conference at
the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K.
1 July 2004: 'Mathematical Recreation Versus Mathematical Knowledge' an invited plenary lecture at the
Mathematical Knowledge Conference at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K.
4 June 2004: 'Rationality and Normativity' presented to the Philosophy Department at the
University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy.
19 May 2004: 'Scientific Realism and Mathematical Nominalism: A Marriage Made in Hell'
presented to the Philosophy of mathematics group at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K.
4 May 2004: 'Rationality and Normativity' presented at a joint seminar of the
Department of Philosophy and the Science Studies Group at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, U.S.A.
12 March 2004: 'Ecological Orbits: How Planets Move and Populations Grow' presented in
the School of Environment at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
20 January 2004: 'There's No Easy Road to Nominalism' presented at the Center for Philosophy of Science
at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
10 August 2003: 'A Second-order Model of Population Growth' presented
at the 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology
and Philosophy of Science in Oviedo, Spain.
16 July 2003: 'Rationality and Normativity' presented at the International
Cognitive Science Meeting at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
7 July 2003: 'Naturalism and the Paradox of Revisability' presented
at the 2003 Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference at the
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
2 May 2003: 'Naturalism and the Paradox of Revisability' presented to
the Department of Philosophy at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
25 April 2003: 'Problems with the Argument from Fine Tuning' presented in
a Foundations of Science Workshop at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil.
14 February 2003: 'Ecological Orbits: The Role of Mathematics in Population Ecology'
presented to the Science Studies Group at the University of
South Carolina, Columbia, U.S.A.
11 September 2002: 'A Particularly Nasty Kind of Model Uncertainty' presented
to the Festival of Doubt at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
23 August 2002: 'The Galilean Turn in Population Ecology' presented to the
Department of Philosophy at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
16 August 2002: 'The Many Faces of Uncertainty' presented to the
School of Life Sciences at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
8 July 2002: 'Gaps Gluts and Borderline Cases' presented at the 2002
Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference at the
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
5 July 2002: 'The Indispensability of Mathematics' invited presentation
at the Australasian Association for the
History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
This was part of an
author-meets-critics session
devoted to my book The
Indispensability of Mathematics, (OUP, 2001).
The critics were: Colin Cheyne, Alan Hazen, Graham Priest, and J.J.C. Smart.
29 May 2002: 'There's No Easy Road to Nominalism' presented at the
South American Association for the History and Philosophy
of Science Meeting in Aguas de Lindoia, Brazil.
2 May 2002: 'There's No Easy Road to Nominalism' presented to the
Department of Philosophy, California State University,
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
13 April 2002: 'An Argument for Ontological Vagueness' presented at
the Central Valley Philosophical Association Meeting at
California State University, Fresno, U.S.A.
28 February 2002: 'There's No Easy Road to Nominalism' presented to the
Department of Philosophy, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
27 August 2001: 'Is it a Crime to Belong to a Reference Class?' presented to
the Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne.
7 August 2001: 'Russell on Metaphysical Vagueness' presented at
the 2nd Principia International Conference in
Florianopolis, Brazil.
2 August 2001: 'The Galilean Turn in Population Ecology' presented in
the History and Philosophy of Science Colloquium at
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.
31 July 2001: 'Naturalism and the Philosophy of Mathematics' presented to
the Department of Philosophy at Pontificia
Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
12 July 2001: 'Beauty and Scientific Virtue'
presented in the 2001 University of Tasmania School of Philosophy
Public Lecture Series: "Vices and Virtues", Hobart, Australia.
2 July 2001: 'Problems with the Argument from Fine Tuning'
presented at the 2001 Australasian Association of
Philosophy Conference at the University of Tasmania.
(Joint presentation with Jay Garfield and Graham Priest.)
2 July 2001: 'There's No Easy Road to Nominalism' presented at the
2001 Australasian Association of
Philosophy Conference at the University of Tasmania, Hobart.
27 June 2001: 'The Galilean Turn in Population Ecology' presented at
the 2001 Australasian Association of History, Philosophy and
Social Studies of Science Conference at the University of Melbourne.
24 May 2001: 'Is it a Crime to Belong to a Reference Class?' presented
in the Science, Ethics, and Public Policy Seminar Series at the California
Institute of Technology.
11 May 2001: 'Mathematics and Aesthetic Considerations in Science'
presented at the Society for Exact Philosophy Meeting in Montreal, Canada.
23 April 2001: 'Problems with the Argument from Fine Tuning'
presented to the Department of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, USA.
11 April 2001: 'Is it a Crime to Belong to a Reference Class?' presented to
the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability,
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
3 April 2001: 'There's No Easy Road to Nominalism' presented to the
Department of Philosophy at California State University,
Fresno, USA.
8 March 2001: 'There's No Easy Road to Nominalism' presented to the
Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut,
Storrs, USA.
9 February 2001: 'Problems with the Argument from Fine Tuning' presented
to the Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa
Barbara, USA.
28 September 2000: 'How Humans Approach Risk' invited lecture at the
Tasmanian Minerals Council Health and Safety Seminar:
Accident Investigation as it Relates to Hazard Management, Hobart, Australia.
22 August 2000: 'Is it a Crime to Belong to a Reference Class?' presented to
the School of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
2, 9, or 16, August 2000: 'Paraconsistency and Vagueness' presented to
the School of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.
(Joint presentation with JC Beall.)
3 July 2000: 'Cox's Theorem and its Philosophical Importance'
presented at the 2000 Australasian Association of
Philosophy Conference at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
1 June 2000: 'Is it a Crime to Belong to a Reference Class?' presented to
the Philosophy Program of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
31 May 2000: 'Philosophy's Role in the Taming of Uncertainty'
presented in the 2000 University of Tasmania School of Philosophy Public
Lecture Series: "Philosophy and the New Millennium", Hobart, Australia.
16 March 2000: 'Is it a Crime to Belong to a Reference Class?' presented to
the Launceston Philosophy Society, Launceston, Australia.
8 March 2000: 'Is it a Crime to Belong to a Reference Class?' presented to
the School of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.
10 February 2000: 'Is Probability the Only Coherent Approach to
Uncertainty?' invited paper at the Society for Risk Assessment Workshop on
Uncertainty held in Arlington, Virginia, USA.
20 January 2000: 'The Miracle of Applied Mathematics' presented to the
Department of Philosophy at SUNY, Stony Brook, USA.
14 January 2000: 'The Miracle of Applied Mathematics' presented to the
Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa
Cruz, USA.
22 December 1999: 'Vagueness, Uncertainty and Supervaluations' presented
to Applied Biomathematics, Setauket, NY, USA.
13 December 1999: 'The Philosophy of Applied Mathematics' presented to the
Department of Philosophy, London School of Economics, UK.
3 December 1999: 'Holism and Ontological Commitment' presented to the
Department of Philosophy, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
1 December 1999: 'The Miracle of Applied Mathematics' presented to the
Department of Philosophy, Smith College, Massachusetts, USA.
6 October 1999: 'The Role of Beauty in Science' presented to the
Launceston Philosophy Society, Launceston, Australia.
17 August 1999: 'Causal Explanation and Ontological
Commitment' presented at the 22nd International Wittgenstein
Symposium, in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria.
6 July 1999: 'The Miracle of Applied Mathematics' presented at the
1999 Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference at the
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
12 May 1999: 'What's So Fuzzy About Uncertainty?' presented to
the School of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.
22 October 1998: 'The Miracle of Applied Mathematics' presented to
the School of Computing, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia.
24 September 1998: 'The Miracle of Applied Mathematics' presented in
the University of Tasmania School of Mathematics and Physics Colloquia, Hobart, Australia.
15 July 1998: 'A Proposal for Fuzzy IUCN Categories and Criteria'
invited paper at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology at
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
14 July 1998: 'Conceptual Contingency and Abstract Existence'
presented at the 1998 Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference at
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
7 July 1998: 'Against Intrinsic Value' presented to the
Philosophy Society of the University of Tasmania, Burnie, Australia.
8 April 1998: 'The Empirical Nature of Mathematical
Knowledge' presented to the School of Philosophy, University
of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia.
1 April 1998: 'Problems with Vagueness in Conservation Biology'
presented to the Philosophy Society of the University of
Tasmania, Launceston, Australia.
11 July 1997: 'The Empirical Nature of Mathematical Knowledge'
presented at the 1997 Australasian Association of Philosophy
Conference at the University of Auckland, Auckland, Australia.
26 February 1997: 'The Empirical Nature of Mathematical Knowledge'
presented to the Australian National University Philosophy
Society, Canberra, Australia.
11 July 1996: 'In Defence of Indispensability' presented at the
1996 Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference at the
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
20 June 1996: 'In Defence of Indispensability' presented to the
Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences,
Australian National University, Canberra Australia.
13 June 1996: 'In Defence of Indispensability' presented to the
Department of Philosophy, University of New England, Armidale, Australia.
10, 11 or 12 April 1996: 'The Bubble of Belief' presented at the 4th
Philosophy Postgraduate Students Conference at the University
of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
7 February 1996: 'Can the Eleatic Principle be Justified?' presented to
the Australian National University Philosophy Society, Canberra, Australia.
25 October 1995: 'Causal Activity as a Mark of Existence' presented to
the Department of Philosophy, University of California,
Irvine, USA.
12 October 1995: 'Causal Activity as a Mark of Existence' presented to
the Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, USA.
6 October 1995: 'Confirmation Theory and Indispensability' presented
to the Logic and Computing Group at Graduate Center of City University of New York, USA.
20 August 1995: 'Confirmation Theory and Indispensability' presented
at the 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and
Philosophy of Science in Florence, Italy.
4 August 1995: 'Confirmation Theory and Indispensability' presented
to the Department of Philosophy, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
3 July 1995: 'Causal Activity as a Mark of Existence' presented at
the 1995 Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference at
the University of New England, Armidale, Australia.
9 May 1995: 'Causal Activity as a Mark of Existence' presented to
the Australian National University Philosophy
Postgraduate Student Seminar Series, Canberra, Australia.
5 February 1995: 'Naturalism' presented at the Australian National
University Philosophy Society Annual Camp at Kioloa, Australia.
19 November 1994: 'Quine's Indispensability Argument' presented at the
3rd Philosophy Postgraduate Students Conference at the
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
17 November 1994: 'Confirmation Theory and Indispensability' presented
to the Department of Philosophy, University of New England, Armidale, Australia.
8 November 1994: 'The Role of Beauty in Science' presented to the
Australian National University Philosophy Postgraduate Student
Seminar Series, Canberra, Australia.
12 October 1994: 'Confirmation Theory and Indispensability' presented
to the Australian National University Philosophy Society, Canberra, Australia.
19 October 1993: 'The Dirichlet Problem and Associated Topics in
Potential Theory' presented to the Mathematics Department,
University of New England, Armidale, Australia.
September 1993: 'The Dirichlet Problem' presented to the Mathematics
Department, University of New England, Armidale, Australia.