AAP 2026 CONFERENCE: Grid

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Check-in Desk Day 1 2:30pm - 6:00pm

Opening Reception 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Conference Welcome 4:00pm - 4:30pm

Not Knowing Not Knowing 4:30pm - 6:00pm

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Philosophy in the Diaspora: The role of philosophy in helping to navigate the complexities of mo... 6:00pm - 7:30pm

The Stance-Dependence of Arguments for Scientific Realism 11:00am - 11:55am

In Defence of Classical Phenomenology 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Symbolic Forms in Cassirer and Merleau-Ponty 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in Focus 11:00am - 11:55am

Beyond Promises, Before Ethical Life 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Kant and the Radical Point of Analogy 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Machine Speech: The Very Idea 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Check-in Desk Day 2 8:30am - 9:00am

Morning Break 10:30am - 10:55am

Lunch 1:00pm - 1:55pm

Afternoon Break 4:00pm - 4:25pm

Politics in Academia 8:30pm - 9:25pm

The Interconnecting Features in Spinoza's Immanent Ontolog... 9:30pm - 10:25pm

Descartes on Scepticism, Habits, Freedom, and the Self 10:30pm - 11:25pm

Emptying the Void 11:00am - 11:55am

Making Sense of Temporary Memberlessness 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Impossible Worlds and What They Cannot Explain 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Naturalizing the Philosophy of Time with the Help of Cogni... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

What Does Optimism about Human-AI Friendship Entail 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Metaphysical Identity: Time for an Australian Philosophy? 9:00am - 10:25am

When Axiomatics is Preferable to Semantics 11:00am - 11:55am

Is Functionalism Inconsistent? 12:00pm - 12:55pm

The Krohn-Rhodes Theorem for the Mathematically Apathetic... 2:00pm - 2:55pm

SAM Space: A Coordinate Geometry for Logic 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Reasoning, Normativity and Logical Pluralism 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Expanding Norms of Epistemic Deference in Standpoint Epist... 11:00am - 11:55am

Knowing Others Through Virtual Embodiment 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Human-in-the-feedback-loop 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Empathy Machines 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Social Marking and the Grounds of Generative AI Bias 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Philosophy for Middle Management: A Field Guide for Field... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Nurturing Critical Thinking and Ethics

The Role of Philosophers in the Age of AI

Dialogue, Justice, and the Classroom

What it Takes to Become a 'Thinking School'?

Young Boys Big Questions: Philosophy for the Fir...

Bullshit Universities: The Future of Automated Education 11:00am - 11:55am

AI Agents, Responsibility, and Explanability 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Reason-Responsiveness Theories Cannot Survive the Attack o... 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Caring for Country... With Robots? 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Bad Food and Immoral Tastes 4:30pm - 5:25pm

The Exclusionary Force of Authoritative Commands 11:00am - 11:55am

Demeriting Labels and the Reproduction of Social Hierarchy 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Distributing the Costs and Benefits of Children 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Kantian Provisional Right in the Anthropocene 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Performativity of the Right to Appear and Resistance Effec... 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Can LLMs Contribute to Philosophical Progress? 11:00am - 11:55am

The Zhuangzi's Political Methods and the Wisdom of Crowds 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Hume's Necessity Found 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Beyond Biology 11:00am - 11:55am

Telling Our Dreams 12:00pm - 12:55pm

The Brain Does Not Give Rise to Consciousness 2:00pm - 2:55pm

De Re Reference and Perceptual Belief 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Philosophy Moves: Cultivating Move-Mindedness 4:30pm - 5:25pm

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Metaphysics Makes No Progress (and that's a Good Thing) 2:00pm - 2:55pm

On Cultivating Responsible Reciprocity in Classrooms: Educ... 11:00am - 11:55am

Consequentialist Considerations, and What Moral Philosophy... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Indigenous and Non-Western Feminist Storywork that Respond... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

First-Person Authority is Pluralistically Justified 11:00am - 11:55am

Absolute Knowledge 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Logic for Virtual Worlds 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Check-in Desk Day 3 8:30am - 9:00am

Morning Break 10:30am - 10:55am

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Solving the Semantic Challenge for Non-Realist Cognitivism 9:30pm - 10:25pm

Love or Abuse? Chiung Yao Novels as Hermeneutical Resource... 07 11:30pm -
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Autonomy and Gendering in Childhood 11:00am - 11:55am

Distrust-Based Oppressive Double Binds 12:00pm - 12:55pm

"How to Make Gravy" Or, Making Sense of Blended-Family Ber... 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Is Method political? Empiricism, Scientism, and Normative Critiques of Methodological Prac... 9:00am - 10:25am

Grasping at GA_Ps 4:30pm - 5:55pm

Unsung Virtues 11:00am - 11:55am

Bachelard's Critique of Bergson 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Chances Are... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Criticality: how Dennett’s ‘practical free will’ can be im... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

A Galilean Physicalist Account of Ineffability 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Philosophers, Autistics, and Three-Year Olds 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Compulsory Trusts as a Model for Consumer Data Ownership 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Izydora Dąmbska and Maria Kokoszyńska on Truth 11:00am - 11:55am

Cooperating in truth and deception: the case of Would I Li... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

A New Defense of Old-School Conceptual Analysis 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Moral Authority and Ethical Expertise: Towards a Meaningfu... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Reopening the Dutch Book 11:00am - 11:55am

Curry's Paradox Forever: A Critical Re-evaluation 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Towards a Taxonomy of Logical Positions 2:00pm - 2:55pm

The Anatomy of Privacy 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Proportionality Contextualized 11:00am - 11:55am

Assessing the Bayesian Picture of Scientific Advice 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Animal Consciousness: Inventing the Ill Defined 3:00pm - 3:55pm

The Duty to Provide Moral Repair to Lab Technicians 11:00am - 11:55am

Blame's Democratic Virtues 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Moral Fetishism and Right-Making-Features Desires 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Enough with Ethics! Legitimacy's Centrality in Everyday Hu... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

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Can Conversational AIs Contribute to Group Understanding? 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Women in Philosophy Catch Up 1:00pm - 1:55pm

Philosophy in the Community: Pathways, Possibilities, and... 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Leibniz's Perspectiva Analogy 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Descartes on Representation, Resemblance, and Duplex Esse 5:30pm - 6:25pm

The Buddhist Conception of Anatta and Paul Ricouer's Narra... 11:00am - 11:55am

No Wei Jose: What Xunzi Teaches Us about Grammarly 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Critical Comparison of Shinran and William James's Perspec... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Are Individuals Morally Responsible for Deleting Their Soc... 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Check-in Desk Day 4 8:30am - 9:00am

Morning Break 10:30am - 10:55am

Lunch - Catered 1:00pm - 1:55pm

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Debunking Identity 5:00am - 5:55am

Can Empirical Psychology Incorporate Moral Truth? 8:00am - 8:55am

To Defer, or Not to Defer? Is that Even a Question? 11:00am - 11:55am

Should Trust be a Default Stance? 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Eudaimonia as Bridge: From Biological Drives to Civilisati... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

From Autopoiesis to Symbiotic Entanglement 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Is "believes that p" vague? 5:30pm - 6:25pm

Philosophy in the Time of Impact 9:00am - 10:25am

Ruddick's "Maternal Thinking" as Boulous Walker's "slow ph... 11:00am - 11:55am

What Do We Want Sex and Gender to Be? 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Authenticity Against Oppression 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Can Parents and Their Children be Friends? 5:30pm - 6:25pm

Parsimony and the Metaphor of Ontological Free Lunches 11:00am - 11:55am

The Causal Structure of Human Historical Inevitability 12:00pm - 12:55pm

The Universe is the Product of the Unicorns 3:00pm - 3:55pm

How Humanism Supports the Existence of God 4:30pm - 5:25pm

What Critical Thinking Is 11:00am - 11:55am

Doxastic Normativity in Hume: A Sceptical Reliabilist Prop... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Slopaganda: The Interaction between Propaganda and Generat... 4:30pm - 5:25pm

How Not to Understand Higher-Order Quantification 11:00am - 11:55am

Qualifying the Qualitative Thesis: On the Ambiguity of Con... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Regret Aversion: A new consideration for rational choice? 3:00pm - 3:55pm

On the Presuppositions of Indicative Conditionals 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Codd's Theorem for Databases over Semirings 5:30pm - 6:25pm

The Relationship between Love and Politics in the work of... 11:00am - 11:55am

Digital Scrolling as Slow Death 12:00pm - 12:55pm

How Pain Fools Everyone 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Fiction, Humour and Engaging with the Atypical 11:00am - 11:55am

Poetry Prose Philosophy 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Aesthetic Judgments and Two-Dimensional Semantics 3:00pm - 3:55pm

An Apology for Number: Schiller’s Aesthetic Education and... 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Metacognition in Aphantasia 11:00am - 11:55am

Desirability Bias 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Can Neuroscience Show Us that We Lack Free Will? 3:00pm - 3:55pm

The Intuitive Historian 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Computation, Representation and Causation in Neural Networ... 5:30pm - 6:25pm

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CONFERENCE DINNER 2025 7:00pm - 10:15pm

Past History is Always Contemporary 11:00am - 11:55am

A Real Old Dilemma for Multiple Realizability 12:00pm - 12:55pm

An Extensional Mereology for Fundamental Particles with In... 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Weak Agents Dealing with (Relevant) Information 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Is Reliabilist Virtue Epistemology Meritocratic? 11:00am - 11:55am

Knowledge, Norms, and the Unification of Justification 12:00pm - 12:55pm

From Reason to Intuition in Spinoza's Ethics 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Spinoza on the Distinction Between Modes and Propria 3:00pm - 4:00pm

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Morning Break 10:30am - 10:55am

Lunch 1:00pm - 1:55pm

Afternoon Break 4:00pm - 4:25pm

Josef Pieper's Novel Criticism of Scientism 5:00am - 5:55am

Aristotle’s Tragic Wonder 6:00am - 6:55am

The Concept of Intensity in Leibniz's Metaphysics 7:00am - 7:55am

Psychiatry as Pre-Paradigmatic Science 8:00am - 8:55am

Hobbesian Honour and Its Constraints 11:00am - 11:55am

Hobbes on Zero-Sum Power 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Doing Philosophy: Community of Inquiry Without the Communi... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Vagueness and Nonclassical Probabilities 9:00am - 10:25am

Verbal Disputes 4:30pm - 5:55pm

Linking Solidarity and Decoloniality in Global Health Rese... 11:00am - 11:55am

Enduring Interests of People with Dementia: Revising the R... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

How Much Explainability is Enough? 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Pain suffering and the self. Part II? 3:00pm - 3:55pm

A Structural Dilemma for Frankfurt-Style Cases 11:00am - 11:55am

Agency in Free Will Skepticism 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Apocalypse Now? 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Why Should We Inquire Truth? 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Minimal Self v Narrative Self 11:00am - 11:55am

The Nonduality of Subject and Object 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Contemporary Philosophical Debates on Nagarjuna's Logic of... 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Truth Constrained 11:00am - 11:55am

Perdurance by Degrees 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Epistemic Encroachment 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Stoic Faith 11:00am - 11:55am

Interspecies Population Ethics: A Disturbing Problem for A... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Possibilistic Assessment of Climate Uncertainty and Marine... 2:00pm - 2:55pm

The Logical Import of Non-Epistemic Values 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Commercial Surrogacy as Illegitimate Work 11:00am - 11:55am

Reading Mill as Pragmatist on Freedom of Expression 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Reciprocal Just Savings 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Division of Responsibility as a Foundation of Social Philo... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

A Novel Defence of the Ethical Narrativity Thesis 11:00am - 11:55am

Vandana Shiva: An Agrarian Virtue Ethics 12:00pm - 12:55pm

About Nothing in Particular 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Sport, Aesthetics and the Soul 3:00pm - 3:55pm

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