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: Katie Steele (who now holds a continuing lectureship at the London School of Economics), Kristie Miller (who now holds a research fellowship at the University of Sydney), and Mitch Parsell (currently a lecturer at Macquarie University).

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr Rachael Briggs: Postdoctoral Fellow on the ARC-funded project "Ethics and Formal Theories of Decision".
Dr James Justus: Postdoctoral Fellow on the project "Environmental Ethics and Decision Theory". This project is part of the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities Research Hub: Applied Environmental Decision Analysis (AEDA).
Dr Aidan Lyon: Postdoctoral Fellow on the project "Formal Consensus Methods". This project is part of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis (ACERA).
Dr Zach Weber: Postdoctoral Fellow on the ARC-funded project "A Paraconsistent Approach to Vagueness".

Previous Postdocs include: Dr Kristie Miller (ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow, worked on the project "A Unified Theory of the Individual" and Dr Katie Steele (ACERA Postdoctoral Fellow, worked on the project "Formal Consensus Methods").

Postgraduate Students

Adam La Caze PhD candidate, has a BA (hons) from the University of Queensland (2005) and started PhD work at the University of Queensland in 2005 before transferring to the University of Sydney in 2006. He recently submitted his thesis on evidence-based, supervised by Mark Colyvan and Jason Grossman. Adam's research interests are in probability theory and epistemology.

Publications:
Cutts, C. and La Caze, A., 'What Tricks and Techniques can be Used to Influence Prescribing?', Prescribing and Medicines Management, 5 (2003), 12–14.
Cutts, C. and La Caze, A., 'Using Clinical Audit to Identify and Change High-risk NSAID Prescribing', Australian Family Physician 31(6) (2002), 590–592.
Cutts, C., La Caze, A. and Tett, S., 'Variations in Demographics and Risk Factors of Patient Populations Prescribed Cyclo-oxygenase-2 Selective and Non-selective Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs', Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research 33(1) (2003), 70–73.
Cutts, C., La Caze, A. and Tett, S., 'A Clinical Audit of the Prescribing of COX-2 Inhibitors in Australian General Practice', British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 54 (2002), 522–527.
Fiori, S., Souzani, S., D'Amore, R., Behan, K., Cutts, C. and La Caze, A., 'Support Needs of Supply Nurses in Rural and Remote Queensland' Australian Journal of Rural Health, 13 (2005), 10–13.
La Caze, A., 'Does Pharmacogenomics Provide an Ethical Challenge to the Utilization of Cost-effectiveness Analysis by Public Healthcare Systems?', Pharmacoeconomics, 23(5) (2005), 445–447.
La Caze, A., 'Probabilities All the Way Down', Metascience, 15(3) (2006), 547–551.
La Caze, A., 'A Problem for Achieving Informed Choice', Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 29 (2008), 255–265.
La Caze, A., 'Evidence-based medicine can't be...', Social Epistemology, 22(4) (2008), 353–357.
Tio, J., La Caze, A. and Cottrell, W., 'Ascertaining Consumer Perspectives on Medication Information Sources Using a Modified Repertory Grid Technique', Pharmacy World Science, 29 (2007), 73–81.

Teaching Experience:
Probability and Decision Theory
Professional Pharmacy Practice
Epidemiology

email: alacaze AT mac DOT com

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: 17 June 2009

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