Colin Cheyne

BSc (1969) BA (1986) DipArts (1989) PhD (1994) (Otago)

Email: colin.cheyne@otago.ac.nz

Colin studied mathematics at Otago and then taught high school mathematics for some years. He returned to Otago and completed a series of degrees in philosophy before joining the department in 1992. His research is mostly in epistemology and the philosophy of mathematics. He is the author of Knowledge, Cause, and Abstract Objects: Causal Objections to Platonism (Kluwer, 2001).

Colin's cats, Tybalt and Bijou.

Teaching

PHIL101: Mind and Reality

PHIL102: Knowledge and Truth

Supervision Interests

• Epistemology
• Metaphysics
• Philosophy of Mathematics
• Philosophical Logic

Publications include

Publications:

Books:

Cheyne, C. Knowledge, Cause, and Abstract Objects: Causal Objections to Platonism Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers (2001)

Edited Volumes:

Cheyne, C. & Worrall, J. (eds) Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave Dordrecht: Springer (2006)

Svoboda, V., B. Jespersen & C. Cheyne (eds) Pavel Tichy's Collected Papers in Logic and Philosophy. Prague & Dunedin: Filosofia & University of Otago Press (2004)

Articles:

Cheyne, C. 'The Asymmetry of Formal Logic.' The Logica Yearbook 2011, M. Peliš & V. Pun?ochá? (eds) London: College Publications (2012) 49-62.

Cheyne, C. 'A Paradox of Justified Believing.' Ratio 22 (2009) 278-290

Cheyne, C. 'Testimony, Induction and Reasonable Belief.' In Rationality and Reality: Conversations with Alan Musgrave, edited by C. Cheyne & J. Worrall, Dordrecht: Springer (2006) 19-30

Cheyne, C. & Pigden, C. 'Negative truths from positive facts.' Australasian Journal of Philosophy 84: 249-265 (2006)

Cheyne, C. 'Numbers, Reference, and Abstraction.' In Arithmetic and Ontology: A Non-Realist Philosophy of Arithmetic by P. Hugly & C. Sayward, edited by P. Garavaso, with commentaries by C. Cheyne, S. Shieh, and J.P. Van Bendegem, Monograph-in-Debate Series of The Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 90, Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi (2006) 313-336

Cheyne, C. 'Exploiting Placebo Effects for Therapeutic Benefit', Health Care Analysis 13 (2005) 177-188

Cheyne, C. 'Necessary Existence and A Priori Knowledge', The Logica Yearbook 2004, L. Behounek and M. Libor (eds.) Prague, Filosofia (2005) 59-67

Cheyne, C. ‘Problems with Profligate Platonism’ Philosophia Mathematica 7 (1999) 164-177.

Cheyne, C. ‘Existence Claims and Causality.’ Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76 (1998) 34-47.

Cheyne, C. ‘Epistemic Value and Fortuitous Truth.’ Principia - an international journal of epistemology 1 (1997) 109-34.

Cheyne, C. ‘Getting in Touch with Numbers: Intuition and Mathematical Knowledge.’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (1997) 111-25.

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