Mark Colyvan Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney Recent and Forthcoming Presentations

• 18 November 2009: 'Environmental Decision Making and Environmental Ethics', presented to the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at ANU, Canberra, Australia.
• 9 November 2009: 'Recent Work in Formal Social Epistemology', presented to the Current Projects Seminar Series, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
• 28 October 2009: 'Vagueness and the Principle of Uniform Solution', presented to the Tilburg Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
• 22 October 2009: 'What's Maths Got to Do With It?', in a symposium on applied mathematics at the 2009 European Philosophy of Science Association Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• 15 October 2009: 'Vagueness and the Principle of Uniform Solution', presented to the Institute of Philosophy, University of London, London, England.
• 13 October 2009: 'Consensus, Compromise, and the "Wisdom" of Crowds', presented to the Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
• 30 September 2009: 'Kurt Gödel and the Limits of Mathematics', public lecture in the Sydney Ideas Key Thinkers lecture series at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
• 20 August 2009: 'The Conservation Game', invited paper in the session on "Adaptive Conservation Decision Making and Expert Elicitation" at the 10th International Congress of Ecology: Ecology in a Changing Climate, Brisbane, Australia.
• 14 July 2009: 'The Natural Environment Is Valuable But Not Infinitely Valuable', presented in a symposium on "Values in Environmental Science and Policy" at the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology Conference, Brisbane, Australia (organised by the University of Sydney).
• 9 July 2009: 'A Ricci Curvature Tensor by any Other Name', presented at the 2009 Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• 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.