Mark Colyvan's Postdoctoral Fellows and Postgraduate Students

I have a terrific team of postdocs and postgraduate students here at the University of Sydney (see below) working primarily in and around the more technical areas of philosophy (philosophy of probability, philosophy of logic, metaphysics and the like). We're always on the lookout for talented and hard-working new people to join our group: honours students, masters students, PhD students and postdocs. Email me at mcolyvan AT usyd DOT edu DOT au if you're interested in joining us. Click here to see the lineage you will be joining (as a PhD student), see here for information about choosing a philosophy graduate program, and here for advice about postdocs (and early career advice, more generally).

My past graduate students include: Adam La Caze (who now holds a lectureship in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Queensland), Kristie Miller (who now holds a research fellowship at the University of Sydney), Mitch Parsell (currently a lecturer at Macquarie University). and Katie Steele (who now holds a continuing lectureship at the London School of Economics). Their average completion time is 3 years.

Postdoctoral Fellows


Previous Postdocs include: Dr James Chase (Postdoctoral Fellow on the ARC-funded project "A Paraconsistent Approach to Vagueness"), Dr Kristie Miller (ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow, worked on the project "A Unified Theory of the Individual"), Dr Katie Steele (ACERA Postdoctoral Fellow, worked on the project "Formal Consensus Methods"), and Dr Zach Weber (Postdoctoral Fellow on the ARC-funded project "A Paraconsistent Approach to Vagueness").

Postgraduate Students

Fabien Medvecky PhD candidate, has a BA (hons) from the University of Queensland (2006). He started PhD work in philosophy at the University of Sydney in August 2007. He is working on the relationship between environmental ethics and environmental decision making. His research is being supervised by Mark Colyvan and Katie Steele, and he is associated with the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities Research Hub: Applied Environmental Decision Analysis, on the project "Environmental Ethics and Decision Theory". Fabien has research interests in decision theory, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, and environmental philosophy.

Publications:
Medvecky, F., 'To Infinity and Beyond!', Metascience, 17(2) (2008), 225–229.

email: fabienmedvecky AT hotmail DOT com


Steven Robertson PhD candidate, has a BSc (hons) (2001), a BA (hons) (2004) and a LLB (hons) (2007), all from the University of Sydney. He started PhD work in philosophy at the University of Sydney in March 2009. He is working on idealisations in rational choice theory. His research is being supervised by Mark Colyvan. Steven has research interests in decision theory, paradoxes and formal epistemology.

email: steven.robertson AT internode DOT on DOT net


I was also an external member of the supervisory committee of James Justus at the University of Texas at Austin, an external co-supervisor for Rachael Briggs at MIT, and an external member of the advisory committee of Aidan Lyon at the Australian National University.

 

Last updated: 26 August 2009

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