Mark Colyvan Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney Teaching Page

Mark Colyvan will not be teaching any further courses at The University of Sydney. Some of the courses below may be taught in the future at The Australian National University.

Courses taught at University of Sydney (2008–2023)

• PHIL2619: Philosophy of Mathematics
• PHIL2620: Probability and Decision Theory
• PHIL2640: Environmental Philosophy
• PHIL2676: Democracy and Voting (co-taught with Brian Hedden)
• PHIL3609: Philosophy of Logic
• PHIL4110 Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Science: Inconsistency in Science
• PHIL4110 Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Science: Models and Explanation
• PHIL4110 Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Science: Science in Policy and Law
• PHIL4112 Epistemology and Language: Conventions
• Honours and Postgrad Seminar on Philosophy and the Infinite
• Honours and Postgrad Seminar on Philosophy of Mathematics
• Postgraduate Workshop on Modality and Conditionals
• Guest lectures in:
  • PHIL2677: How Biology Matters to Philosophy
  • PHIL2610: Exploring Non-Classical Logic
  • PHIL2661: Philosophy of Sex
  • PHIL2665: Philosophy of Economics
  • MATH3066: Algebra and Logic

Courses taught at University of Queensland (2002–2005)

• PHIL1110: Critical Reasoning
• PHIL1020: Introduction to Logic
• PHIL2020: Paradoxes (co-taught with Gary Malinas)
• PHIL2040: Philosophy of Mathematics
• PHIL2100: Worlds Possible and Impossible
• COGS3010: Choice, Risk and Decision
• Honours Seminar on Philosophy and Probability
• Logic Honours Seminar on Evolutionary Game Theory
• Guest lectures in:
  • PHIL1600: Film, TV and Philosophy
  • PHIL2150: Philosophy of the Life Sciences
  • PHIL2160: Philosophy of Science
  • LPWM2003: Principles of Wildlife Management
  • BIOL2006: Biostatistics and Experimental Design
  • HIST2008: The Sixties: A Political and Cultural History

Courses taught at California Institute of Technology (2002–2003)

• Introduction to Philosophy
• Philosophy of Mathematics
• Decision Theory (co-taught with Alan Hájek)

Courses taught at University of Tasmania (1998–2000)

• Introduction to Logic
• Modal Logic
• Deviant Logic
• Choice, Risk, and Decision
• Philosophy of Mathematics
• Philosophy of Language
• Epistemology
• Contemporary Philosophy (team taught)
• Honours Seminar on Philosophy and the Infinite

Other Teaching

• Introduction to Calculus (tutor at University of New England, 1993)
• Philosophy of Language (tutor at University of New England, 1994)
• Introduction to Philosophy (tutor at Australian National University, 1996)
• Discrete Mathematics (tutor at University of Canberra, 1997)
• Introduction to Logic (tutor at Macquarie University, 1996, 1997)
• Co-taught (with Pen Maddy and Mary Leng) Postgrad seminar on Philosophy of Mathematics (Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, 2001)
• Postgraduate Seminar on Philosophy of Ecology (Ludwig-Maximilians University, 2016)
• Guest Lectures in philosophy at UCLA, University of Melbourne, NYU