AAP 2026 CONFERENCE

AAP 2026 CONFERENCE

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8:30am AEST

Check-in Desk Day 2 GCI-Auditorium

9:00am AEST

Metaphysical Identity: Time for an Australian Philosophy? Steele-206-HYBRID

10:30am AEST

Morning Break GCI-Auditorium

11:00am AEST

Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in Focus GCI-275 HYBRID Bullshit Universities: The Future of Automated Education Steele-314 When Axiomatics is Preferable to Semantics Steele-237 Emptying the Void Steele-206 Can LLMs Contribute to Philosophical Progress? Steele-320 Beyond Biology Steele-329 The Stance-Dependence of Arguments for Scientific Realism GCI-273 HYBRID The Exclusionary Force of Authoritative Commands Steele-315 Expanding Norms of Epistemic Deference in Standpoint Epistemology Steele-262

12:00pm AEST

AI Agents, Responsibility, and Explanability Steele-314 Is Functionalism Inconsistent? Steele-237 In Defence of Classical Phenomenology GCI-273 HYBRID Making Sense of Temporary Memberlessness Steele-206 Philosophy for Middle Management: A Field Guide for Field Philosophy Steele-309 Telling Our Dreams Steele-329 Demeriting Labels and the Reproduction of Social Hierarchy Steele-315 Knowing Others Through Virtual Embodiment Steele-262

1:00pm AEST

Lunch GCI-Auditorium

2:00pm AEST

Nurturing Critical Thinking and Ethics Steele-309 Beyond Promises, Before Ethical Life GCI-275 HYBRID Reason-Responsiveness Theories Cannot Survive the Attack of Situationism Steele-314 The Krohn-Rhodes Theorem for the Mathematically Apathetic Philosopher Steele-237 Impossible Worlds and What They Cannot Explain Steele-206 The Brain Does Not Give Rise to Consciousness Steele-329 Distributing the Costs and Benefits of Children Steele-315 Human-in-the-feedback-loop Steele-262

2:30pm AEST

The Role of Philosophers in the Age of AI Steele-309

3:00pm AEST

Dialogue, Justice, and the Classroom Steele-309 Kant and the Radical Point of Analogy GCI-275 HYBRID The Zhuangzi's Political Methods and the Wisdom of Crowds Steele-320 Caring for Country... With Robots? Steele-314 SAM Space: A Coordinate Geometry for Logic Steele-237 Symbolic Forms in Cassirer and Merleau-Ponty GCI-273 HYBRID Naturalizing the Philosophy of Time with the Help of Cognitive Science Steele-206 De Re Reference and Perceptual Belief Steele-329 Kantian Provisional Right in the Anthropocene Steele-315 Empathy Machines Steele-262

4:00pm AEST

Afternoon Break GCI-Auditorium

4:30pm AEST

What it Takes to Become a 'Thinking School'? Steele-309 Bad Food and Immoral Tastes Steele-314 What Does Optimism about Human-AI Friendship Entail Steele-206 Reasoning, Normativity and Logical Pluralism Steele-237 Philosophy Moves: Cultivating Move-Mindedness Steele-329 Machine Speech: The Very Idea GCI-275 HYBRID Hume's Necessity Found Steele-320 Performativity of the Right to Appear and Resistance Effects--from Butler and Arendt's Reflections Steele-315 Social Marking and the Grounds of Generative AI Bias Steele-262

5:00pm AEST

Young Boys Big Questions: Philosophy for the First Time Steele-309

6:00pm AEST

Philosophy in the Diaspora: The role of philosophy in helping to navigate the complexities of modern life Abel Smith Lecture Theatre

8:30pm AEST

Politics in Academia ONLINE ONLY

9:30pm AEST

The Interconnecting Features in Spinoza's Immanent Ontology ONLINE ONLY

10:30pm AEST

Descartes on Scepticism, Habits, Freedom, and the Self ONLINE ONLY