AAP 2026 CONFERENCE

In Defense of the Suicidal: A Response to Kant 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Procreative Asymmetry, Non-Identity, and Consistency 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Harm Reduction in Non-Suicidal Self Harm 3:00pm - 3:55pm

What Makes a Sport a Sport? On Folk Intuitions about Rules... 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Contrasting Defences of Gender Equality: Hobbes and Cavend... 11:00am - 11:55am

Whose Transmisogyny is it Anyway? 12:00pm - 12:55pm

From Inner Light to Feminist Praxis: Catherine West 2:00pm - 2:55pm

A Path Out: Considering Trans Ideal Theory and Ideal Trans... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Explanatory Pluralism and the Epistemic Status of Spiritua... 4:30pm - 5:25pm

A Property Theory of Natural Laws 11:00am - 11:55am

Locative and Mereological Coincidence: Beyond the Monism/P... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Do Not Pull Apart Explanation from Grounding! 2:00pm - 2:55pm

All Talk, No Traction: Abstracta, Explanation, and Ontolog... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

On the Special Omission Question 4:30pm - 5:25pm

A Hyperinferentialist Account of Active Inference 11:00am - 11:55am

From Daimōn to Phantasma: The Archaeology of "Knowing" as... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

What Determines the Content of Our Imaginings? 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Are Dreams Epistemically Relevant? From Scepticism to Drea... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Experiencing Inner Awareness 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Kaitiakitanga and Climate Activism 11:00am - 11:55am

Illusory Empowerment within Patriarchal Social Arrangement... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Structural Injustice and Duties of Superintendence 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Justifying a Republican Theory of Transitional Justice 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Trusting God is Not Like Trusting Your Spouse 4:30pm - 5:25pm

CLAUDE LOAB and I (AM) 11:00am - 11:55am

On AI Agents, Outliers, and Exceptionalism(s) 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Temporal Human Creativity and the Limits of AI Art 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Against Computational Functionalism about Consciousness 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Anxiety, Dying Authentically and Digital Duplicates for Pa... 4:30pm - 5:25pm

(The?) Truth 11:00am - 11:55am

Garment Upon Garment: Language and Truth in the Encyclopéd... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

On Russell's So-Called Truth Primitivism 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Can Truth Subvert the Inference Barriers? 3:00pm - 3:55pm

A Market Failure in the Attention Economy 4:30pm - 5:25pm

The Generation of Justification: Testimony and Memory 11:00am - 11:55am

Group Evidence Without Belief: Internal Tensions in Lackey... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Virtue Signalling in the Classroom 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Habitual Critique: Between Nature and Spirit 3:00pm - 3:55pm

The Environmental Ethics of Overpopulation 11:00am - 11:55am

Interspecies Population Ethics 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Pleasure, Pain, and Hedonism: Some Current Issues 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Depending on Others: Towards a Unified Understanding of Vi... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Intending and Settling Practical Questions 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Truth and History 9:00am - 10:25am

Better Thinking, Better Decisions: Critical Thinking for Public & Professional Leadership 6:00pm - 7:30pm

When Your AI Partner Won't Please You 11:00am - 11:55am

When, Why, and How Should We Lie to Our Friends? 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Taking Risks for Others 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Conceptual Pluralism and the Umbrella Problem: A Case Stud... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Artwork as a Form of Indigenous Philosophical Communicatio... 11:00am - 11:55am

Beyond Relationality: Country as Warrant in Aboriginal Epi... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Reframing Animal Ethics through Indigenous and Epic Wisdom 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Reconciliation as a Philosophical Project 3:00pm - 3:55pm

A Direct Argument for B-Series Fatalism 4:30pm - 5:25pm

What is Time? 11:00am - 11:55am

Constructing Moral Inequality 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Constituted Group Agents 2:00pm - 2:55pm

A Neo-Carnapian Approach to the Problem of Empty Names 3:00pm - 3:55pm

The Refutation of Ontological Nihilism 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Beyond Imagination: The Absent Object and Non-Sense of the... 11:00am - 11:55am

Brain Simulation and the Implementation Challenge for Mind... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

The Presentness of Pain: Why We Cannot Remember a Sting 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Defending Phenomenological Theories of Pleasure from the I... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Consciousness Does Not Have Boundaries 4:30pm - 5:25pm

What's the 'Good' in Children as a Public Good? 11:00am - 11:55am

A Critical Evaluation of the Global Peace Index 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Something is Wrong with Extremism 2:00pm - 2:55pm

On Political Gaslighting 3:00pm - 3:55pm

What is Cancer? A Pluralist Approach to Classifying Cancer... 11:00am - 11:55am

A Puzzle about Partner Choice 12:00pm - 12:55pm

What Do Selectional Explanations Explain? The Neander/Sobe... 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Biological Function Across Domains: Polysemy and Explanato... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Internally Conflicted Group Agents: Against the Coherence... 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Accounting for the Stickiness of Conspiracy Theories 11:00am - 11:55am

How Generalism about Conspiracy Theories Misleads 12:00pm - 12:55pm

An Account Degenerating Myth 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Rebuilding the Good Epistemic Bubble 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Captured Vigilance: When "Doing Your Own Research" Becomes... 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Bostrom's Transhumanism: Misunderstanding the Human 11:00am - 11:55am

Agentic AI without Machine Agency 12:00pm - 12:55pm

AI Ambiguity and the Contagion of Disrespect 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Childhood Practical Reason and Dependency in the Age of Ge... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Active Joy: A Spinozist Philosophical Foundation for Serio... 11:00am - 11:55am

Consciousness in Evolution: Making Monadic Panpsychism Mor... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Human Thinking in an AI Age: An Aesthetic-Dialectical Resp... 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Critical Reasoning of Early Greek Thinkers: Concepts of Cr... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Critical Thinking as a Regulator of Tolerance 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Forgiveness and the Purpose of Rememberance 11:00am - 11:55am

Death and Lament: A Deprivationist Argument Against Lament... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Product Boycott: Morally Good Boycotts vs Morally Bad Boyc... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Is there an obligation not to incentivise dishonesty? 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Worthless Science: Against the Equivalence of Pursuits 11:00am - 11:55am

Gaston Bachelard's Non-Kantian Philosophy of Science in th... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

An Evolutionary Debunking Argument Against Theoretical Par... 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Structuralism in Loop Quantum Gravity 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Mental Disorders, Symptom Networks, and Dispositions 4:30pm - 5:25pm

The Symmetry of Epistemic Resistance 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Discerning Truthfulness and the Fear of Betrayal 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Is Truth Correspondence, Coherence, Pragmatic Utility? - A... 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Why Does Truth Seem Valuable? 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Conspiracy Theories: Particularism vs Generalism vs Anti-G... 11:00am - 11:55am

Irrationality is in the Job Description: Why Epistemic Rol... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Some Varieties of Particularism 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Contextualism, a Challenge from Experimental Philosophy 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Confidentiality, Assertion, and Finite Inquiry 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Religious Fictionalism: A Ritualistic Approach 11:00am - 11:55am

Hermeneutic Religious Fictionalism: A Defence 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Thibodeau and the Horrendous Deeds Objection: A Reply 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Lucid Reflections: Moral Injury Turning the Earth 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Defending egalitarianism against merited hierarchy 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Cognitive Value of Fiction in Relation to Perspectival Ima... 11:00am - 11:55am

Imagining New Narratives: Documentary Film, Trauma, and Af... 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Aesthetic Resonance and Imagined Community: Rethinking the... 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Are Phenomenal Properties Dispositional? 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Accipere Aude: Autonomy, Illumination, and the Necessity o... 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Adversarial examples and AI-based knowledge 11:00am - 11:55am

Revisiting Scientific Realism: Lessons from Explainable AI 12:00pm - 12:55pm

Outputs First: Rethinking Bullshit in Large Language Model... 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Pluralistic World Views, AI Adoption, and Trustworthy AI 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Taxonomically Transformative Technologies: AI, Conceptual... 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Phenomenology of Disability and the Doctor/Patient Relatio... 11:00am - 11:55am

What Does It Mean To Be 'Always Ready'? 12:00pm - 12:55pm

A sympathetic response to skepticism about empathy 2:00pm - 2:55pm

Film and the Mode of Dream 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Between Reason and Desire: Brandom on the Moral Valet 4:30pm - 5:25pm

Epistemic Errors in Prosocial Behaviour-Promoting Virtual... 11:00am - 11:55am

Doubt Aversion Theory 12:00pm - 12:55pm

The Double Bind of Self: Cultural Legacies that Affect Cri... 2:00pm - 2:55pm

The Misuse of Slippery Slope Arguments by VAD Opponents 3:00pm - 3:55pm

Deliberative Strategic Action 4:30pm - 5:25pm