Prof. Dr. Mark Colyvan

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheoretical Philosophy
KeywordsTheory of Science

Current contact address

CountryAustralia
CitySydney
InstitutionUniversity of Sydney
InstituteSchool of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry (SOPHI)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Stephan HartmannMunich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Prof. Dr. Stephan HartmannLehrstuhl für Wissenschaftstheorie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2017

Programme(s)

2016Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award Programme of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Nominator's project description

Professor Mark Colyvan is an internationally-renowned philosopher who has made influential contributions to a broad range of topics both within philosophy and beyond. He is especially known for his use of formal mathematical methods in advancing both philosophy and biology. During his stay in Germany, Professor Colyvan will mainly work on mathematical explanations as well as on philosophical problems concerning biological laws, analogies and allometries.