AAP 2026 CONFERENCE

AAP 2026 CONFERENCE

10:00am AEST

2025 WINTER SCHOOL Abel Smith Lecture Theatre

2:30pm AEST

Check-in Desk Day 1 GCI-Auditorium

4:00pm AEST

Conference Welcome Steele-206-HYBRID

4:30pm AEST

Not Knowing Not Knowing Steele-206-HYBRID

6:00pm AEST

Opening Reception GCI-Auditorium

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

8:30am AEST

Check-in Desk Day 3 GCI-Auditorium

9:00am AEST

Is Method political? Empiricism, Scientism, and Normative Critiques of Methodological Practice in Political Philosophy Steele-206-HYBRID

10:30am AEST

Morning Break GCI-Auditorium

11:00am AEST

First-Person Authority is Pluralistically Justified GCI-275 HYBRID On Cultivating Responsible Reciprocity in Classrooms: Educational Implications of Kantian Constructivism GCI-273 HYBRID The Duty to Provide Moral Repair to Lab Technicians Steele-329 Autonomy and Gendering in Childhood Steele-206 Reopening the Dutch Book Steele-315 Unsung Virtues Steele-237 Izydora Dąmbska and Maria Kokoszyńska on Truth Steele-314 Proportionality Contextualized Steele-320

12:00pm AEST

Absolute Knowledge GCI-275 HYBRID Blame's Democratic Virtues Steele-329 Consequentialist Considerations, and What Moral Philosophy is For GCI-273 HYBRID Distrust-Based Oppressive Double Binds Steele-206 Curry's Paradox Forever: A Critical Re-evaluation Steele-315 Bachelard's Critique of Bergson Steele-237 Cooperating in truth and deception: the case of Would I Lie to You? Steele-314 Criticality: how Dennett’s ‘practical free will’ can be improved. Steele-262 Compulsory Trusts as a Model for Consumer Data Ownership Steele-309

1:00pm AEST

Lunch GCI-Auditorium

2:00pm AEST

Moral Fetishism and Right-Making-Features Desires Steele-329 "How to Make Gravy" Or, Making Sense of Blended-Family Bereavement Steele-206 Towards a Taxonomy of Logical Positions Steele-315 Metaphysics Makes No Progress (and that's a Good Thing) GCI-273 - In Person A New Defense of Old-School Conceptual Analysis Steele-314 A Galilean Physicalist Account of Ineffability Steele-262 Assessing the Bayesian Picture of Scientific Advice Steele-320

3:00pm AEST

Moral Authority and Ethical Expertise: Towards a Meaningful Distinction Steele-314 Indigenous and Non-Western Feminist Storywork that Responds to Liberal Feminism GCI-273 HYBRID Enough with Ethics! Legitimacy's Centrality in Everyday Human Life Steele-329 Logic for Virtual Worlds GCI-275 HYBRID The Anatomy of Privacy Steele-315 Chances Are... Steele-237 Philosophers, Autistics, and Three-Year Olds Steele-262 Animal Consciousness: Inventing the Ill Defined Steele-320

4:00pm AEST

Afternoon Break GCI-Auditorium

4:30pm AEST

Grasping at GA_Ps Steele-206-HYBRID

9:30pm AEST

Solving the Semantic Challenge for Non-Realist Cognitivism ONLINE ONLY

11:30pm AEST

Love or Abuse? Chiung Yao Novels as Hermeneutical Resources ONLINE ONLY

5:00am AEST

Debunking Identity ONLINE ONLY

8:00am AEST

Can Empirical Psychology Incorporate Moral Truth? ONLINE ONLY

8:30am AEST

Check-in Desk Day 4 GCI-Auditorium

9:00am AEST

Philosophy in the Time of Impact Steele-206-HYBRID

10:30am AEST

Morning Break GCI-Auditorium

11:00am AEST

Fiction, Humour and Engaging with the Atypical Steele-320 Metacognition in Aphantasia Steele-329 The Relationship between Love and Politics in the work of Slavoj Zizek Steele-315 The Buddhist Conception of Anatta and Paul Ricouer's Narrative Self in the Indonesian Youth Pledge of 1928 GCI-275 HYBRID What Critical Thinking Is Steele-309 To Defer, or Not to Defer? Is that Even a Question? Steele-206 Ruddick's "Maternal Thinking" as Boulous Walker's "slow philosophy" Steele-237 How Not to Understand Higher-Order Quantification Steele-314 Parsimony and the Metaphor of Ontological Free Lunches Steele-262

12:00pm AEST

Poetry Prose Philosophy Steele-320 Doxastic Normativity in Hume: A Sceptical Reliabilist Proposal Steele-309 Desirability Bias Steele-329 Digital Scrolling as Slow Death Steele-315 No Wei Jose: What Xunzi Teaches Us about Grammarly GCI-275 HYBRID Can Conversational AIs Contribute to Group Understanding? GCI-273 HYBRID Should Trust be a Default Stance? Steele-206 What Do We Want Sex and Gender to Be? Steele-237 Qualifying the Qualitative Thesis: On the Ambiguity of Conditionals Steele-314 The Causal Structure of Human Historical Inevitability Steele-262

1:00pm AEST

Lunch - Catered GCI-Auditorium Women in Philosophy Catch Up GCI-273 HYBRID

2:00pm AEST

Philosophy in the Community: Pathways, Possibilities, and Challenges GCI-273 HYBRID

3:00pm AEST

Aesthetic Judgments and Two-Dimensional Semantics Steele-320 Can Neuroscience Show Us that We Lack Free Will? Steele-329 Eudaimonia as Bridge: From Biological Drives to Civilisational Flourishing Steele-206 Regret Aversion: A new consideration for rational choice? Steele-314 The Universe is the Product of the Unicorns Steele-262 How Pain Fools Everyone Steele-315 Critical Comparison of Shinran and William James's Perspectives on Beliefs GCI-275 HYBRID

4:00pm AEST

Afternoon Break GCI-Auditorium

4:30pm AEST

An Apology for Number: Schiller’s Aesthetic Education and Bolzano on the Beauty of Mathematics Steele-320 Leibniz's Perspectiva Analogy GCI-273 HYBRID The Intuitive Historian Steele-329 Slopaganda: The Interaction between Propaganda and Generative AI Steele-309 Are Individuals Morally Responsible for Deleting Their Social Media Accounts? GCI-275 HYBRID Authenticity Against Oppression Steele-237 On the Presuppositions of Indicative Conditionals Steele-314 How Humanism Supports the Existence of God Steele-262 From Autopoiesis to Symbiotic Entanglement Steele-206

5:30pm AEST

Descartes on Representation, Resemblance, and Duplex Esse GCI-273 HYBRID Computation, Representation and Causation in Neural Networks Steele-329 Can Parents and Their Children be Friends? Steele-237 Codd's Theorem for Databases over Semirings Steele-314 Is "believes that p" vague? Steele-206

5:00am AEST

Josef Pieper's Novel Criticism of Scientism ONLINE ONLY

6:00am AEST

Aristotle’s Tragic Wonder ONLINE ONLY

7:00am AEST

The Concept of Intensity in Leibniz's Metaphysics ONLINE ONLY

8:00am AEST

Psychiatry as Pre-Paradigmatic Science ONLINE ONLY

8:30am AEST

Check-in Desk GCI-Auditorium

9:00am AEST

Vagueness and Nonclassical Probabilities Steele-206-HYBRID

10:30am AEST

Morning Break GCI-Auditorium

11:00am AEST

Hobbesian Honour and Its Constraints Steele-206 Linking Solidarity and Decoloniality in Global Health Research Steele-237 Minimal Self v Narrative Self Steele-309 Past History is Always Contemporary GCI-273 HYBRID Is Reliabilist Virtue Epistemology Meritocratic? GCI-275 HYBRID A Novel Defence of the Ethical Narrativity Thesis Steele-329 Stoic Faith Steele-315 Truth Constrained Steele-314 A Structural Dilemma for Frankfurt-Style Cases Steele-262 Commercial Surrogacy as Illegitimate Work Steele-320

12:00pm AEST

Hobbes on Zero-Sum Power Steele-206 Enduring Interests of People with Dementia: Revising the Revision Model Steele-237 The Nonduality of Subject and Object Steele-309 Knowledge, Norms, and the Unification of Justification GCI-275 HYBRID Interspecies Population Ethics: A Disturbing Problem for Animal Ethics Steele-315 Vandana Shiva: An Agrarian Virtue Ethics Steele-329 Perdurance by Degrees Steele-314 Agency in Free Will Skepticism Steele-262 A Real Old Dilemma for Multiple Realizability GCI-273 HYBRID Reading Mill as Pragmatist on Freedom of Expression Steele-320

1:00pm AEST

Lunch GCI-Auditorium

2:00pm AEST

From Reason to Intuition in Spinoza's Ethics GCI-275 HYBRID How Much Explainability is Enough? Steele-237 Contemporary Philosophical Debates on Nagarjuna's Logic of Emptiness Steele-309 An Extensional Mereology for Fundamental Particles with Intrinsic Properties GCI-273 HYBRID About Nothing in Particular Steele-329 Apocalypse Now? Steele-262 Possibilistic Assessment of Climate Uncertainty and Marine Ice-Cliff Instability Steele-315 Reciprocal Just Savings Steele-320

3:00pm AEST

Pain suffering and the self. Part II? Steele-237 Epistemic Encroachment Steele-314 Sport, Aesthetics and the Soul Steele-329 Weak Agents Dealing with (Relevant) Information GCI-273 HYBRID Why Should We Inquire Truth? Steele-262 Doing Philosophy: Community of Inquiry Without the Community Steele-206 The Logical Import of Non-Epistemic Values Steele-315 Division of Responsibility as a Foundation of Social Philosophy Steele-320 Spinoza on the Distinction Between Modes and Propria GCI-275 HYBRID

4:00pm AEST

Afternoon Break GCI-Auditorium

4:30pm AEST

Verbal Disputes Steele-206-HYBRID

7:00pm AEST

CONFERENCE DINNER 2025 Customs House