Mark Colyvan

Mark Colyvan is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He has held visiting appointments in the Department of Logic and Philoso phy of Science at the University of California, Irvine, and in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute ofTechnology. He works on philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of logic, decision theory, metaphysics, and philosophy of science (especially philosophy of ecology and the role of mathematics in science). He is the author of The Indispensability of Mathematics, (Oxford University Press, 2001) and (with Lev Ginzburg) Ecological Orbits: How Planets Move and Populations Grow (Oxford University Press, 2004). While at the Center for Philosophy of Science he worked on the role of naturalism in various debates in the philosophy of science and in metaphysics. (Although he is too easily distracted by other interesting topics, so while at the Center he also found himself working on decision theory and philosophy of logic.) As for life outside philosophy, he enjoys watching movies and listening to 1960s pop music.