Research
interests
Philosophy
of Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of
Mathematics, Philosophy of Biology (especially Philosophy of
Ecology), Decision Theory.
Current research projects
Risk Analysis (DAFF funded), Paraconsistent Approaches to Vagueness (ARC funded),
Decision and Risk in Environmental Science (CERF funded), Complex Environmental Decision Making (NSF funded), Ethics
and Decision Theory (ARC funded), Formal Social Epistemology (Dutch Science Foundation funded).
Selected
recent publications
Books
Papers (2007 – )
- 'Modelling the Moral Dimension of Decisions', Noûs, forthcoming.
(Coauthors: Damian Cox and Katie Steele.)
- 'The Ontological Commitments of Inconsistent Theories', Philosophical Studies, forthcoming.
- 'Environmental Ethics and Decision Theory: Fellow Travellers or Bitter Enemies?',
in B. Brown, K. de Laplante, and K. Peacock (eds.),
Handbook of the Philosophy of Science Volume 11:
Philosophy of Ecology, North Holland/Elsevier, forthcoming. (Coauthor:
Katie Steele.)
- 'Fictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics', in E.J. Craig (ed.),
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Online edition, Taylor and Francis, forthcoming.
- 'The Biodiversity Bank Cannot be a Lending Bank', Ecological Economics, forthcoming.
(Coauthors: Sarah Bekessy, Brendan Wintle, David Lindenmayer, and Hugh Possingham.)
- 'Mathematical and Physical Continuity', Australasian Journal of Logic, forthcoming.
(Coauthor: Kenny Easwaran.)
- 'Vagueness and Truth', in H. Dyke (ed.), From Truth to Reality: New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics,
Routledge, 2008, forthcoming.
- 'Naturalising Normativity', in
D. Braddon-Mitchell and R. Nola (eds.), Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism,
MIT Press, 2008, chap. 8.
- 'Mathematics and the World', chapter in A.D. Irvine (ed.),
Handbook of the Philosophy of Science Volume 9:
Philosophy of Mathematics, North
Holland/Elsevier, 2008 forthcoming.
- 'Who's Afraid of Inconsistent Mathematics?',
Protosociology, 2008, forthcoming.
- 'Is Probability the Only Coherent Approach to Uncertainty?', Risk
Analysis, Vol. 28, No. 3 (June 2008), 645–52.
- 'The Explanatory Power of Phase Spaces', Philosophia Mathematica (3), Vol. 16, No. 2 (June 2008), 227–43.
(Coauthor: Aidan Lyon.)
- 'Population Ecology', in S. Sarkar and A. Plutynski (eds.),
A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology, Blackwell, 2008, pp. 301–20.
- 'Philosophy of Mathematics: Five Questions', in V.F. Hendricks and H. Leitgeb (eds.),
Philosophy of Mathematics: Five Questions, Automatic Press, 2008, pp. 75–85.
- 'Relative Expectation Theory', Journal of Philosophy,
Vol. 105, No. 1 (January 2008), pp. 37–44.
- 'Mathematical Recreation Versus Mathematical Knowledge', in M. Leng, A. Paseau, and M. Potter (eds.),
Mathematical Knowledge, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 109–22.
- 'Right Decisions or Happy Decision Makers?', Social Epistemology, Vol. 21, No. 4.
(October–December, 2007), pp. 349–68.
(Coauthors: Katie Steele, Helen M. Regan, and Mark A. Burgman.)
- 'Legal Decisions and the Reference-Class Problem',
International Journal of Evidence and Proof, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2007), pp. 274–85. (Coauthor: Helen M. Regan.)
For a complete publication list and many downloadable papers, see Mark's Research
Page.
Other activities and
service
Past President and current Member of Council of the Australasian Association of Philosophy,
Member of the editorial board of Formal Epistemology,
Associate Editor of The Australasian Journal of Philosophy,
Chief Investigator in the Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis,
Core Researcher in the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities
Research Hub: Applied Environmental Decision Analysis,
Member of the Biotechnology, Ethics, Law and Society Network.
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