Biography:Mark Colyvan
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Short description: Australian philosopher
Mark Colyvan | |
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| Awards | Humboldt Fellow, ARC Future Fellowship |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | University of Sydney |
| Thesis | Indispensability arguments in the philosophy of mathematics (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | J. J. C. Smart[1] |
Main interests | Philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, conservation biology |
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| Website | http://www.colyvan.com/ |
Mark Colyvan is an Australian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is a former president of the Australasian Association of Philosophy. Colyvan is known for his research on philosophy of mathematics.[2]
Books
- The Indispensability of Mathematics, Oxford University Press, 2001
- Ecological Orbits: How Planets Move and Populations Grow, Oxford University Press, 2004
- An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, 2012
References
- ↑ "Mark Colyvan – Indispensability arguments in the philosophy of mathematics" (in en-US). https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/145370.
- ↑ "Colyvan, Mark - Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) - LMU Munich" (in en). http://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/people/external_members/colyvan/index.html.
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