16 August 2021: 'Living in a Fine Tuned Universe: A User's Guide', public lecture in the
Science Week Speaker Series, Barry O’Keefe Library, Mossman, Australia.
20 February 2020: 'Crime, Punishment, and Statistical Evidence', public lecture in the
Port Macquarie Philosophy Forum, Port Macquarie, Australia.
16 April 2019: 'Living in a Fine Tuned Universe: A User's Guide', public lecture in the
Inner West Council Libraries Speaker Series, Leichhardt Library, Leichhardt, Australia.
14 March 2019: 'The Wisdom of Crowds and Mindless Mobs', public lecture in the Open Mind Philosophy Series,
Kogarah Library, Kogarah, Australia.
26 July 2018: 'A Parade of Paradoxes', public lecture in the
Port Macquarie Philosophy Forum, Port Macquarie, Australia.
27 June 2018: 'Non Basta Il DNA A Fare Una Prova'
by Professor Francesco De Pretis
in the Italian national daily newspaper La Stampa, p. 30, discusses my presentation on statistical evidence in the court room at the workshop on "Evidence in Statistical, Biomedical and Forensic Sciences" Polytechnic University of Marche, Faculty of Medicine, Ancona, Italy on the 8th of June 2018.
24 February 2018: 'The Wisdom of Crowds and Mindless Mobs', public lecture in the
Port Macquarie Philosophy Forum, Port Macquarie, Australia.
22 July 2017: 'Biodiversity and Triage', public lecture in the
Blackheath Philosophy Forum, Blackheath, Australia.
6 February 2015: Interviewed by Christopher Collins for the 2019 feature-length documentary series Infinity.
31 March 2014: 'Rebooting Nature'
by Leigh Nicholson
in Honi Soit included quotes from an interview with me about the "Revive and Restore" project for recreating extinct species.
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:
The Logic of Mathematics, interview
with Adam Spencer on the breakfast show on ABC Radio 702.
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 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.
A list of all Mark's research presentations can be found here.