Mark Colyvan Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney Media Appearances and Public Comments

Some of the public lectures and interviews can be downloaded as podcasts.

• January 2010: 'Kurt Gödel', interview with Alan Saunders for the ABC Radio National program The Philosopher's Zone.
• 30 September 2009: 'Kurt Gödel and the Limits of Mathematics', public lecture in the University of Sydney Key Thinkers Lecture Series, Sydney, Australia. (Recorded and broadcast on SlowTV (link to video above); the talk can also be downloaded as an audio podcast here on the Sydney Ideas website.)
• 30 September 2009: Interview about Kurt Gödel with Adam Spencer on the breakfast show on ABC Radio 702.
• 9 September 2009: Interview about Kurt Gödel for the University of Sydney website.
• 29 July 2008: 'Decision Theory and Dating', interviewed by Susan Maushart for episode 17 of the ABC radio program Multiple Choice (second season).
• 28 July 2008: 'Behind Every Good Sport Is a Fixation with No. 1' published in The Sydney Morning Herald, Monday 28 July 2008, p. 11.
• 22 July 2008: Interview for the forthcoming feature-length Douglas Hockly documentary "A Little Madness To Be Free", on the history of Australian rock climbing.
• 7 July 2008: 'The Mating Game: A Philosopher Looks at Mating and Dating', presented at the Heart of Philosophy Cafe, Melbourne, Australia.
• 11 June 2008: 'Proven ... It Pays Off to Be Faithful' by Jill Rowbotham (and photograph by Venessa Hunter) in The Australian was about my work on the mathematics of dating and mate selection.
• 18 March 2007: 'What Is and What Is Not', public lecture in the Edge of Reason public lecture series at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.
• 3 March 2007: 'Let's Get Metaphysical', interview with Alan Saunders for the ABC Radio National program The Philosopher's Zone.
• 3 December 2006: Interview about Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon appeared on the ABC Television program My Favourite Album (and repeated on 7 January 2007).
• 11 March 2006: 'Anger over UQ bid to cut Arts provision' by Tess Livingstone in The Courier Mail contained extended quotations (used without permission and out of context) from an email of mine to some of my colleagues at the University of Queensland.
• 19 August 2005: 'Of Demons, Gods and Mathematicians' published in The Australian Financial Review, Friday 19 August 2005, p. Review 3.
• 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.
  
• 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.