Mark Colyvan Professor of Philosophy University of Sydney Research Page

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Current Research Projects

• Formal Approaches to Legal Reasoning (ARC funded)
• Laws, Models and Analogies in Ecology (ARC funded)
• Mathematical Notation (ARC funded)
• Mathematical Explanation (ARC funded)
• Group Decision Methods (DAFF funded)
• Ecological Allometries (STIAS funded)
• Decision and Risk in Environmental Science

Major Research Awards

• Senior Fellowship at Zukunftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), University of Konstanz (2023–2024): Philosophy of Mathematics
• ARC Discovery Grant (2018–2020): Formal Approaches to Legal Reasoning (with Brian Hedden)
• Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2017–2019)
• ARC Discovery Grant (2017–2019): Laws, Models and Analogies in Ecology
• ARC Discovery Grant (2012–2014): Mathematical Notation: A Philosophical Account
• ARC Future Fellowship (2012–2016): Mathematical Explanation
• ACERA Project Funding (2010): Comparing Data Mining Methods in Risk Analysis (with Aidan Lyon)
• Dutch Science Foundation Internationalisation Grant (2008–2010): Formal Approaches to Social Epistemology (with Stephan Hartmann, Cristina Bicchieri, and Jesus Pedro Zamora Bonilla)
• ARC Discovery Grant (2008–2010): Ethics and Formal Theories of Decision
• AEDA Project Funding (2008–2010): Environmental Ethics and Decision Theory
• ACERA Project Funding (2007–2009): The Evaluation and Development of Formal Consensus Methods
• Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities (CERF) Research Hub (2006–2010): Applied Environmental Decision Analysis (AEDA) (with Hugh Possingham and several other CIs)
• Australian Government funded Centre of Excellence (2006–2010): Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis (ACERA) (administered by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) (with Mark A. Burgman and several other CIs)
• ARC Discovery Grant (2006–2008): A Paraconsistent Approach to Vagueness (with Dominic Hyde)
• University of Queensland Research Grant (2005): A Paraconsistent Approach to Vagueness
• ARC Discovery Grant (2002–2004): The Role of Naturalism in Ontology and Scientific Methodology
• University of Tasmania Institutional Research Grant (2002): A Metaphysical Approach to Vagueness
• ARC SPIRT Grant (2001): Mathematical Issues at the Foundation of Population Ecology
• University of Tasmania Institutional Research Grant (2001): Philosophical Naturalism
• ARC Small Grant (2000): The Identification and Treatment of Uncertainty in Threatened Species Classification
• University of Tasmania Industry Collaborative Research Grant (1999–2000): Uncertainty in Risk Assessment

Visiting Appointments

• 2023–2024: Zukunftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), University of Konstanz.
• 2012: Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study
• 2007: Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago
• 2004: The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh
• 2002–2003: Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology
• 2001: Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California, Irvine

Other Short-term and Honorary Positions

• 2013–present: Visiting Professor, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians University
• 2007–2012: Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science at Tilburg University
• 2005: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University
• 1999: The Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies

Publications

You can download pdf files of some of these by selecting the relevant titles.
For publications listed by topic, see Mark's Publications by Topic.
For current citation data see my Google Scholar profile.

Books

• An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012.
• Ecological Orbits: How Planets Move and Populations Grow, Oxford University Press, New York, 2004. (Coauthor: Lev R. Ginzburg)
• The Indispensability of Mathematics, Oxford University Press, New York, 2001.

Edited Volumes

• Reduction and the Special Sciences, special issue of Erkenntnis, Vol 73, No. 3 (November 2010). (Guest editor and brief introduction with Stephan Hartmann.)

Refereed Papers

• 'Explanation in Descriptive Set Theory', in K. Robertson and A. Wilson (eds.), Levels of Explanation. Oxford University Press (forthcoming). (Coauthor: Carolin Antos)

• 'Meta-uncertainty and the Proof Paradoxes', Philosophical Studies, Vol. 180, No. 7 (July 2023) 1927–50. (Coauthor: Katie Steele)
• 'Explanation and Realism: Interwoven Themes in the Philosophy of Mathematics', in Y. ben Menahem and C. Posy (eds.), Mathematical Knowledge, Objects and Applications: Essays in Memory of Mark Steiner, Springer, 2023, pp. 41–58. (Coauthor: Michael D. Resnik)

• 'Prospects for a Monist Theory of Non-causal Explanation in Science and Mathematics', Erkenntnis, Vol. 87, No. 4 (August 2022), 1773–93. (Coauthors: Alexander Reutlinger and Karolina Krzyżanowska)
• 'Mathematical Models and Analogical Reasoning', in S. Wuppuluri, and A.C. Grayling (eds.), Metaphors and Analogies in Sciences and Humanities: Words and Worlds, Springer, 2022, pp. 159–70.

• 'Non-Naturalistic Moral Explanation', Synthese, Vol. 198, No. 5 (May 2021), 4273–94. (Coauthors: Sam Baron, Kristie Miller, and Michael Rubin)
• 'Explanation Impossible', Philosophical Studies, Vol. 178, No. 2 (February 2021), 559–76. (Coauthor: Sam Baron)

• 'The Power of Mathematical Notation', Australian Mathematics Education Journal (Section 2: For Senior High School and Tertiary Educators), Vol. 2, No. 1 (April 2020), 31–4.
• 'A Counterfactual Approach to Explanation in Mathematics', Philosophia Mathematica (3), Vol. 28, No. 1 (February 2020), 1–34. (Coauthors: Sam Baron and David Ripley)

• 'Legal Probabilism: A Qualified Defence', The Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 27, No. 4 (December 2019), 448–68. (Coauthor: Brian Hedden)
• 'The End of Mystery', American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 3 (July 2019), 247–64. (Coauthor: Sam Baron)

• 'The Ins and Outs of Mathematical Explanation', Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 40, No. 4 (December 2018), 26–9. Reprinted in M. Pitici (ed.), The Best Writing on Mathematics 2020, Princeton University Press, 2020, pp. 189–97.
• 'Two Flavours of Mathematical Explanation', in A. Reutlinger and J. Saatsi (eds.), Explanation Beyond Causation, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 231–49. (Coauthors: John Cusbert and Kelvin McQueen)

• 'The Limits of Subtraction', The Australasian Philosophical Review, Vol. 1, No. 2 (September 2017), 168–72.
• 'Biodiversity and Triage', in H. Leitgeb, I. Niiniluoto, P. Seppälä and E. Sober (eds.), Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the 15th International Congress: Models and Modelling, College Publications, 2017, pp. 421–35.
• 'A Challenge for Evidence-Based Policy', Axiomathes, Vol. 27, No. 1 (February 2017), 1–13. (Coauthor: Adam La Caze)
• 'How Mathematics Can Make a Difference', Philosophers' Imprint, Vol. 17, No. 3 (January 2017), 1–19. (Coauthors: Sam Baron and David Ripley)

• 'Philosophy of Logic: 5 Questions', in T. Adajian and T. Lupher (eds.), Philosophy of Logic: 5 Questions, Automatic Press, 2016, pp. 57–64.
• 'Value of Information and Monitoring in Conservation Biology', Environment, Systems and Decisions, Vol. 36, No. 3 (September 2016), 302–9.
• 'Making Ado without Expectations', Mind, Vol. 125, No. 499 (July 2016), 829–57. (Coauthor: Alan Hájek)
• 'Time Enough for Explanation', The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 113, No. 2 (February 2016), 61–88. (Coauthor: Sam Baron)

• 'The Undeniable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Special Sciences', in M.C. Galavotti, D. Dieks, W.J. Gonzalez, S. Hartman, T. Uebel, and M. Weber (eds.), New Directions in the Philosophy of Science, Springer, 2014, pp. 63–73.
• 'Disagreement Behind the Veil of Ignorance', Philosophical Studies, Vol. 170, No. 3 (September 2014), 377–94. (Coauthors: Ryan Muldoon, Chiara Lisciandra, Carlo Martini, Giacomo Sillari, and Jan Sprenger)
• 'Tolerating Gluts', Mind, Vol. 123, No. 491 (July 2014), 813–28 (Coauthors: Zach Weber, David Ripley, Graham Priest, and Dominic Hyde)
• 'Voting Systems for Environmental Decisions: A Review', Conservation Biology, Vol. 28, No. 2 (April 2014), 322–32. (Coauthors: Mark A. Burgman, Helen M. Regan, Lynn A. Maguire, James Justus, Tara G. Martin, and Kris Rothley)

• 'Resolving Disagreement Through Mutual Respect', Erkenntnis, Vol. 78, No. 4 (August 2013), 881–98. (Coauthors: Carlo Martini and Jan Sprenger)
• 'Idealisations in Normative Models', Synthese, Vol. 190, No. 8 (May 2013), 1337–50.

• 'Road Work Ahead: Heavy Machinery on the Easy Road', Mind, Vol. 121, No. 484 (October 2012), 1031–46.
• 'Just What is Vagueness?', Ratio, Vol. 25, No. 1 (March 2012), 19–33. (Coauthor: Otávio Bueno)
• 'Avoiding Bio-perversity from Carbon Sequestration Solutions', Conservation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 1 (January 2012), 28–36. (Coauthors: David B. Lindenmayer, Kristin Hulvey, Richard Hobbs, Adam Felton, Hugh Possingham, Will Steffen, Kerrie Wilson, Kara Youngentob, and Philip Gibbons)

• 'Indexing and Mathematical Explanation', Philosophia Mathematica (3), Vol. 19, No. 3 (October 2011), 323–34. (Coauthor: Alan Baker)
• 'Fictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics', in E.J. Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Online edition, Taylor and Francis, 2011, URL = http://www.rep.routledge.com/article/Y093
• 'An Inferential Conception of the Application of Mathematics', Noûs, Vol. 45, No. 2 (June 2011), 345–74. (Coauthor: Otávio Bueno)
• 'Environmental Ethics and Decision Theory: Fellow Travellers or Bitter Enemies?', in K. deLaplante, B. Brown, and K.A. Peacock (eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Science Volume 11: Philosophy of Ecology, North Holland/Elsevier, 2011, pp. 285–99. (Coauthor: Katie Steele)
• 'A Philosopher's View of Theory: A Response to Gorelick', Ideas in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 4 (2011), 11–3.
• 'The Conservation Game', Biological Conservation, Vol. 144, No. 4 (April 2011), 1246–53. (Coauthors: James Justus and Helen M. Regan)

• 'Mating, Dating, and Mathematics: It's All in the Game', in K. Miller and M. Clark (eds.), Dating—Philosophy for Everyone: Flirting with Big Ideas, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 211–20. Reprinted in M. Pitici (ed.), The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012, Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. 262–71.
• 'Modelling the Moral Dimension of Decisions', Noûs, Vol. 44, No. 3 (September 2010), 503–29. (Coauthors: Damian Cox and Katie Steele)
• 'The Natural Environment is Valuable but Not Infinitely Valuable', Conservation Letters, Vol. 3, No. 4 (August 2010), 224–8. (Coauthors: James Justus and Helen M. Regan)
• 'A Topological Sorites', The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 107, No. 6 (June 2010), 311–25. (Coauthor: Zach Weber)
• 'Analogical Thinking in Ecology: Looking Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries', The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 85, No. 2 (June 2010), 171–82. (Coauthor: Lev R. Ginzburg)
• 'The Biodiversity Bank Cannot Be a Lending Bank', Conservation Letters, Vol. 3, No. 3 (June 2010), 151–8. (Coauthors: Sarah A. Bekessy, Brendan A. Wintle, David B. Lindenmayer, Michael A. McCarthy, Mark A. Burgman and Hugh P. Possingham)
• 'There is No Easy Road to Nominalism', Mind, Vol. 119, No. 474 (April 2010), 285–306.

• 'Applying Inconsistent Mathematics', in O. Bueno and Ø. Linnebo (eds.), New Waves in Philosophy of Mathematics, Palgrave MacMillan, 2009, pp. 160–72. Reprinted in M. Pitici (ed.), The Best Writing on Mathematics 2010, Princeton University Press, 2011, pp. 346–57.
• 'Philosophical Issues in Ecology: Recent Trends and Future Directions', Ecology and Society, Vol. 14, No. 2 (December 2009), article 22. [online] URL = http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art22/. To be translated into French and reprinted in Hors-Sol, forthcoming. (Coauthors: Stefan Linquist, William Grey, Paul E. Griffiths, Jay Odenbaugh, and Hugh P. Possingham)
• 'Response to Sagoff', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 24, No. 12 (December 2009), 644. (Coauthors: James Justus, Helen M. Regan, and Lynn A. Maguire)
• 'Mathematics and the World', in A.D. Irvine (ed.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Science: Philosophy of Mathematics, North Holland/Elsevier, 2009, pp. 651–702.
• 'Buying Into Conservation: Intrinsic Versus Instrumental Value', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 24, No. 4 (April 2009), 187–91. (Coauthors: James Justus, Helen M. Regan, and Lynn A. Maguire)
• 'Naturalising Normativity', in D. Braddon-Mitchell and R. Nola (eds.), Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism, MIT Press, 2009, pp. 303–13.
• 'Vagueness and Truth', in H. Dyke (ed.), From Truth to Reality: New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics, Routledge, 2009, pp. 29–40.

• 'Some Practical Suggestions for Improving Engagement Between Researchers and Policy-makers in Natural Resource Management', Ecological Management and Restoration, Vol. 9, No. 3 (December 2008), 182–6. (Coauthors: Philip Gibbons, et al.)
• 'Paraconsistent Vagueness: Why Not?', The Australasian Journal of Logic, Vol. 6 (2008), 107–21. (Coauthor: Dominic Hyde)
• 'The Ontological Commitments of Inconsistent Theories', Philosophical Studies, Vol. 141, No. 1 (October 2008), 115–23.
• 'Mathematical and Physical Continuity', Australasian Journal of Logic, Vol. 6 (2008), 87–93. (Coauthor: Kenny Easwaran)
• 'Who's Afraid of Inconsistent Mathematics?', Protosociology, Vol. 25, (2008), 24–35. Reprinted in G. Preyer and G. Peter (eds.), Philosophy of Mathematics: Set Theory, Measuring Theories and Nominalism, Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt, 2008, pp. 28–39.
• 'Is Probability the Only Coherent Approach to Uncertainty?', Risk Analysis, Vol. 28, No. 3 (June 2008), 645–52.
• 'The Explanatory Power of Phase Spaces', Philosophia Mathematica (3), Vol. 16, No. 2 (June 2008), 227–43. (Coauthor: Aidan Lyon)
• 'Population Ecology', in S. Sarkar and A. Plutynski (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology, Blackwell, 2008, pp. 301–20.
• 'Philosophy of Mathematics: Five Questions', in V.F. Hendricks and H. Leitgeb (eds.), Philosophy of Mathematics: Five Questions, Automatic Press, 2008, pp. 75–85.
• 'Relative Expectation Theory', The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 105, No. 1 (January 2008), 37–44.

• 'Mathematical Recreation Versus Mathematical Knowledge', in M. Leng, A. Paseau, and M. Potter (eds.), Mathematical Knowledge, Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 109–22.
• 'Right Decisions or Happy Decision Makers?', Social Epistemology, Vol. 21, No. 4 (October–December, 2007), 349–68. (Coauthors: Katie Steele, Helen M. Regan and Mark A. Burgman.)
• 'Legal Decisions and the Reference-Class Problem', International Journal of Evidence and Proof, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2007), 274–85. (Coauthor: Helen M. Regan)

• 'No Expectations', Mind, Vol. 115, No. 459 (July 2006), 695–702.
• 'A Formal Model for Consensus and Negotiation in Environmental Management', Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 80, No. 2 (July 2006), 167–76. (Coauthors: Helen M. Regan and Lisa Markovchick-Nicholls)
• 'Scientific Realism and Mathematical Nominalism: A Marriage Made in Hell', in C. Cheyne and J. Worrall (eds.), Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave, Springer, 2006, pp. 225–37.
  
• 'Naturalism and the Paradox of Revisability', Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 87, No. 1 (March 2006), 1–11.

• 'Probability and Ecological Complexity', Biology and Philosophy, Vol. 20, No. 4 (September 2005), 869–79.
• 'Problems with the Argument from Fine Tuning', Synthese, Vol. 145, No. 3 (July 2005), 325–38. (Coauthors: Jay L. Garfield and Graham Priest)
• 'Ontological Independence as the Mark of the Real', Philosophia Mathematica (3), Vol. 13, No. 2 (June 2005), 216–25.

• 'Logical Non-Apriorism and the Law of Non-Contradiction', in G. Priest, JC Beall, and B. Armour-Garb (eds.), The Law of Non-Contradiction: New Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 156–75. (Coauthor: Otávio Bueno)
• 'The Philosophical Significance of Cox's Theorem', International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Vol. 37, No. 1 (August 2004), 71–85.

• 'Yablo's Paradox and Referring to Infinite Objects', The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 81. No. 3 (September 2003), 402–12. (Coauthor: Otávio Bueno)
• 'The Galilean Turn in Population Ecology', Biology and Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 3 (June 2003), 401–14. (Coauthor: Lev R. Ginzburg)
• 'Laws of Nature and Laws of Ecology', Oikos, Vol. 101, No. 3 (June 2003), 649–53. Translated into Estonian (by Kalle Hein) and reprinted as 'Loodusseadused ja Ökoloogiaseadused' in Akadeemia, 2008, No. 7, 1493–504. (Coauthor: Lev R. Ginzburg)
• 'Paradox without Satisfaction', Analysis, Vol. 63, No. 2 (April 2003), 152–6. (Coauthor: Otávio Bueno)

• 'A Taxonomy and Treatment of Uncertainty for Ecology and Conservation Biology', Ecological Applications, Vol. 12, No. 2 (April 2002), 618–28. (Coauthors: Helen M. Regan and Mark A. Burgman)
• 'Mathematics and Aesthetic Considerations in Science', Mind, Vol. 111, No. 441 (January 2002), 69–74.

• 'Russell on Metaphysical Vagueness', Principia, Vol. 5, No. 1–2 (2001), 87–98.
• 'Looking for Contradictions', The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 79, No. 4 (December 2001), 564–9. (Coauthor: JC Beall)
• 'Ranking in Threatened Species Classification', Conservation Biology, Vol. 15, No. 6 (December 2001), 1814–6.
• 'The Miracle of Applied Mathematics', Synthese, Vol. 127, No. 3 (June 2001), 265–78.
• 'Is it a Crime to Belong to a Reference Class?', The Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 9, No. 2 (June 2001), 168–81. Reprinted in H.E. Kyburg and M. Thalos (eds.), Probability is the Very Guide of Life, Open Court, Chicago, 2003, pp. 331–47. (Coauthors: Helen M. Regan and Scott Ferson)
• 'Heaps of Gluts and Hyde-ing the Sorites', Mind, Vol. 110, No. 438 (April 2001), 401–8. (Coauthor: JC Beall)

• 'Fuzzy Sets and Threatened Species Classification', Conservation Biology, Vol. 14, No. 4 (August 2000), 1197–9. (Coauthor: Helen M. Regan)
• 'Conceptual Contingency and Abstract Existence', The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 198 (January 2000), 87–91.
• 'A Proposal for Fuzzy IUCN Categories and Criteria', Biological Conservation, Vol. 92, No. 1 (January 2000), 101–8. (Coauthors: Helen M. Regan and Mark A. Burgman)

• 'Contrastive Empiricism and Indispensability', Erkenntnis, Vol. 51, No. 2–3 (November 1999), 323–32.
• 'Confirmation Theory and Indispensability', Philosophical Studies, Vol. 96, No. 1 (October 1999), 1–19.
• 'Mathematics: Truth and Fiction?', Philosophia Mathematica (3), Vol. 7, No. 3 (October 1999), 336–49. (Coauthor: Edward N. Zalta)
• 'Causal Explanation and Ontological Commitment', in U. Meixner and P. Simons (eds.), Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age: Papers of the 22nd International Wittgenstein Symposium, Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 1999, Vol. 1, pp. 141–6.
• 'The Treatment of Uncertainty and the Structure of the IUCN Threatened Species Categories', Biological Conservation, Vol. 89, No. 3 (August 1999), 245–9. (Coauthors: Mark A. Burgman, Charles R. Todd, H. Resit Akçakaya and Chris Boek)

• 'Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics', in E.N. Zalta (ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ISSN 1095-5054, Stanford University, (December 1998), URL= http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mathphil-indis.
• 'Can the Eleatic Principle be Justified?', The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 28, No. 3 (September 1998), 313–36.
• 'Is Platonism a Bad Bet?', The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 76, No. 1 (March 1998), 115–9.
• 'In Defence of Indispensability', Philosophia Mathematica (3), Vol. 6, No. 1 (February 1998), 39–62.

Book Reviews

• 'Review of H. Fry, The Mathematics of Love', Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 63, No. 7 (August 2016), 821–2.
• 'Review of M. Sagoff, The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law, and the Environment', The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 83, No. 3 (September 2008), 301.
• 'The Calculus of Cat and Mouse', The Australian Review of Public Affairs, (December, 2007), URL= http://www.australianreview.net.
• 'Myths and Mathematics in our Vision of the World', The Australian Review of Public Affairs, (1 August 2005), URL= http://www.australianreview.net. Reprinted as 'Of Demons, Gods and Mathematicians' in The Australian Financial Review, Friday 19 August 2005, Review 3.
• 'The Pursuit of the Riemann Hypothesis', Metascience, Vol. 14, No. 1 (March 2005), 78–80.
• 'Models and Explanation in Ecology', Metascience, Vol. 13, No. 3 (December 2004), 334–7.
• 'Review of M. Giaquinto, The Search for Certainty', Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, Vol. 10, No. 2 (June 2004), 214–6.
• 'Review of J.R. Brown, Philosophy of Mathematics', Philosophy in Review, Vol. 22, No. 1 (February 2002), 14–6.
• 'Review of J.P. Burgess and G. Rosen, A Subject with No Object', Studia Logica, Vol. 67, No. 1 (February 2001), 146–9.
• 'Review of M. Steiner, The Applicability of Mathematics as a Philosophical Problem', Mind, Vol. 109, No. 434 (April 2000), 390–4.
• 'Quaternions and Space-Time', Metascience, Vol. 8, No. 3 (November 1999), 489–90.
• 'Review of P. Maddy, Naturalism in Mathematics', Mind, Vol. 108, No. 431 (July 1999), 586–90.
• 'Review of H.G. Dales and G. Oliveri (eds.), Truth in Mathematics', Australian Mathematical Society Gazette, Vol. 26, No. 2 (June 1999), 82–6.
• 'Review of M.D. Resnik, Mathematics as a Science of Patterns and S. Shapiro, Philosophy of Mathematics', The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 49, No. 4 (December 1998), 652–6.
• 'Review of A. Morton, and S.P. Stich (eds.), Benacerraf and his Critics', The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 75, No. 2 (June 1997), 262–5.

Other Publications

• 'The Dawn of Universal Ecology', The Scientist, Vol. 33, No. 11 (November 2019), 20–21. URL= https://www.the-scientist.com/critic-at-large/the-dawn-of-universal-ecology-66605. (Coauthors: John Damuth and Lev R. Ginzburg)
• 'Power to the People?', New Philosopher, Issue 21 (August 2018): online. (Coauthor: Brian Hedden)
• 'Life's a Game', New Philosopher, (August–October 2013), pp. 33–4.
• 'Obituary for Alan Saunders', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 90, No. 4 (Dec 2012), 823–4. (Coauthor: Stephen Hetherington)
• 'From Notation to Knowledge', Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics: Aspects of Interaction, St. Petersburg: Euler International Mathematical Institute, 2012, pp. 27–34.
• 'Ecological Laws', Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2012, URL= http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199830060/obo-9780199830060-0046.xml. (Coauthor: Lev R. Ginzburg)
• 'Growing Biodiversity Banking', in D. Ottaviani and N. El-Hage Scialabba (eds), Payment for Ecosystem Services and Food Security, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 2011, pp. 104–7. (Coauthors: Sarah A. Bekessy, Brendan A. Wintle, David B. Lindenmayer, Michael A. McCarthy, Mark A. Burgman and Hugh P. Possingham)
• 'Conference Report: The Authority of Science', The Reasoner, Vol. 5, No. 6 (June 2011), 91–2. (Coauthors: Paul Griffiths, Stephan Hartmann, and Jan Sprenger)
• 'A Year in the Life', in R. Macklin (ed.), My Favourite Teacher, University of New South Wales Press, 2011, pp. 36–7.
• 'The Study of Philosophy in Australia', i-studentadvisor: i-LASH, Vol. 6, 2010, pp. 34–35. Reprinted in i-studentadvisor: i-LASH, Vol. 7, 2011, pp. 19–20. URL = http://www.i-studentadvisor.com/international-courses-i-lash.html (Coauthor: Alan Hájek)
• 'Interview with Mark Colyvan', The Reasoner, Vol. 3, No. 7 (July 2009), 1–4. URL = http://www.thereasoner.org/. (Interviewed by Jan Sprenger.)
• 'Environmental Philosophy: Beyond Environmental Ethics', Arts, Vol. 29, 2007, 95–104.
• 'Beauty and Scientific Virtue', in I. Sawford (ed.), Virtues and Vices, Pyrrho Press, Hobart, 2002, pp. 1–17.
• 'Philosophy's Role in the Taming of Uncertainty', in M. La Caze (ed.), Philosophy and the New Millennium, Pyrrho Press, Hobart, 2000, pp. 1–13.
• 'Dealing with Vagueness in Threatened Species Classification', in R.N. Dave and T. Sudkamp (eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society: Real World Applications of Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 1999, pp. 685–94. (Coauthors: Helen M. Regan and Mark A. Burgman)
• 'The Bubble of Belief', in Y. Rider and G.A. Rutter (eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Australasian Philosophy Postgraduate Students Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1997, pp. 35–43.
• 'Quine's Indispensability Argument', in A. Duckworth (ed.), Proceedings of the 3rd Australasian Philosophy Postgraduate Students Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 1995, pp. 269–82.

Technical Reports

• 'Demonstrating Risk Analysis Capabilities', ACERA technical report prepared for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry, 2009. (Coauthors: Mark A. Burgman et al.)
• 'Survey of Group Consensus Methods', technical report for ACERA project "Evaluation and Development of Formal Consensus Methods", prepared for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry, 2008. (Coauthors: Katie Steele, Helen M. Regan, and Mark A. Burgman)
• 'Improving the Participation of Women in the Philosophy Profession', report and recommendations prepared for the Australasian Association of Philosophy, 2008. (Coauthors: Eliza Goddard, Susan Dodds, Lynda Burns, Frank Jackson, Karen Jones and Catriona Mackenzie)

Some Non-Philosophical Publications

Work Currently Under Consideration

• 'Ecological Laws: Do they have Jurisdiction on Other Planets?' (Coauthors: John Damuth and Lev R. Ginzburg)
• 'Notations as Models: Music and Mathematics' (Coauthor: Tom Hall)
• 'Do Conspiracy-Theory Interventions Rest on a Mistake?' (Coauthors: Tim Smartt, and Hannah Tierney)

Work in Progress

• A book manuscript, under contract with Oxford University Press, tentatively titled: Thinking about Ecology.
• 'The Dual Roles of Evidence and Theory in Ecology' (Coauthors: John Damuth and Lev R. Ginzburg)
• 'Model Selection: Blurring the Science–Policy Divide' (Coauthor: Mark A. Burgman)
• 'The Art of Modelling: Exaggeration and Lying by Omission'
• 'The Deontologist and the Deer Hunter'
• 'Yablo's Paradox Rides Again' (Coauthor: Otávio Bueno)