AAP 2026 CONFERENCE

AAP 2026 CONFERENCE

8:30am NZST

Check-in Desk Day 2 MSB Foyer

9:00am NZST

Indigenous Humanism(S) Against Colonial Inhumanity PWCGeorgina Tuari Stewart • Nathan Rew

10:30am NZST

Morning Break MSB Foyer

11:00am NZST

Beyond Accuracy: A Capacities-Based Account of First Person Authority and the Challenge of Affective AI N3.01Adam Andreotta Making Sense of Pain MSB1.36 & 37Deb Brown Vallalar's Unique Epistemology MSB1.15Priyadharshini Muthukannan The Shape of Moral Risk MSB1.05Mitch Barrington From Measuring Moral Judges to Mapping Moral Scenarios MSB1.01Scott Young Whakapapa as Philosophical Method: Tracing the Genealogy of Virtue Ethics MSB1.21Emma Maurice What I'd Ask Lewis about Counterfactuals If I Could MSB1.20Alan Hajek Public Justification for Professional Discipline: A Convergence Liberal Approach MSB1.03Thomas Yates

12:00pm NZST

Psychoneural Identities MSB1.36 & 37Cory Wright Resisting for the Wrongdoer's Sake: A Neglected Justification for Moral Resistance MSB1.15Pei Yu Doxastic Dilemma and Its Normative Problem MSB1.05Po-Wei Chuang Relational Close-Mindedness MSB1.02Heather Battaly Ignorance and Māori Philosophy MSB1.21Georgina Tuari Stewart Against the Causal Indpendence Principle of Counterfactuals MSB1.20Joshua Pearson Making Punishment Sensitive to Deprivation MSB1.03Corey McCabe This is Simply What We Do: the Normative Background of Collective Epistemic Practices N3.01Florencia Quiroga

1:00pm NZST

Lunch MSB Foyer

2:00pm NZST

Practicing Val Plumwood's Philosophy in the Indoor Spider Encounter N3.01Victoria Lawson Redefining the Problem of Justification: On the Tension Between Language and Reality MSB1.05Vincent Ray Daut Findings of a Eudaimonic Wellbeing Intervention MSB1.01Victor Lusis Paradise Lost: Rationalist Optimisation and the Transformation of Nature MSB1.36 & 37Chris Lean Sperm are from Mars, Eggs are from Venus: Generic Cognition and the Reification of Sex Essentialism MSB1.02Maisie Belle Norton Ersatz Wisdom: Suspension (and other goals) in Sextus' Outlines MSB1.15David Merry Pūrākau, Narrative Sovereignty, and the Whare Tapa Whā Coherence Engine MSB1.21David McCurdy The Ins and Outs of Meaning MSB1.20David Lumsden The Profit Motive, Meaning and Meaningful Work MSB1.03Adrian Walsh

3:00pm NZST

Thinking with Other Minds: A Sociocultural Enactivist Approach MSB1.36 & 37Will Wright The Divergence of Reason between Lukacs and Horkheimer N3.01Hexiong Yang Higher-Order Evidence and Bayesian Orthodoxy MSB1.05Magdalen Elmitt Moral Appreciation and Moral Virtue MSB1.02Wenwen Li Why Consequentualism Should Be Freedom-Based MSB1.01Daniel McKay Freedom and Servitude: The Construction of Political Norms in Early-Modern Europe MSB1.15Michael-Francis Polios Truth-Telling and Environmental Policy MSB1.21Kylie Bishop Wittgenstein's Tractatus on a Conception of the Philosophy of Language MSB1.20Limmalu Udaya Kumar

4:00pm NZST

Afternoon Break MSB Foyer

4:30pm NZST

Diachrony and Hopeful Asymmetry in Levinas: Shame Beyond Ethical Collapse N3.01Jaeseok Choi Higher Uncertainty and Epistemic Vagueness MSB1.05Ming Dai A Brentanian Solution to the Partiality Problem MSB1.15Shintaro Takahashi Gossip and Acquaintance MSB1.01Michael Bruckner Andrea Dworkin's Sexual Ethics: A Pro-Sex Feminist After All? MSB1.02Louise Richardson-Self What Can Philosophers Do to Support Victims of Gendered Violence & Racialization? Inquiries into Doura Truth-Telling Indigenous Feminism & Moral Revolution in Australasian Philosophy MSB1.21Collethy K Jaru • Nicolas Bullot • Helen Gorogo • Joe Ulatowski Dirty Hands, Paragons and the Symbiotic Ethics of Activism MSB1.03Gurleen Khandpur

6:00pm NZST

MADE - Tasting Night MADE

8:30am NZST

Check-in Desk Day 3 MSB Foyer

9:00am NZST

Truth and History PWCJoe Ulatowski • Michael Lynch

10:30am NZST

Morning Break MSB Foyer

11:00am NZST

CLAUDE LOAB and I (AM) MSB1.20Carlos Raimundo • Nikolai Blaskow The Generation of Justification: Testimony and Memory MSB1.36 & 37Sui Shimizu The Environmental Ethics of Overpopulation N3.01Catherine McDonald Contrasting Defences of Gender Equality: Hobbes and Cavendish MSB1.02Diane Zetlin A Property Theory of Natural Laws MSB1.03John Bigelow • Martin Leckey A Hyperinferentialist Account of Active Inference MSB1.05Joe Melling Kaitiakitanga and Climate Activism MSB1.15Marco Grix (The?) Truth MSB1.21Calvin Normore

12:00pm NZST

On AI Agents, Outliers, and Exceptionalism(s) MSB1.20Alexey Zhavoronkov Interspecies Population Ethics N3.01James Curtin Group Evidence Without Belief: Internal Tensions in Lackey's Account MSB1.36 & 37Hao-Pu Kang In Defense of the Suicidal: A Response to Kant MSB1.01Keisha Christle Abog Illusory Empowerment within Patriarchal Social Arrangements MSB1.15Difei Chen Whose Transmisogyny is it Anyway? MSB1.02Rosalind Silver Locative and Mereological Coincidence: Beyond the Monism/Pluralism Taxonomy MSB1.03Jordan Lee-Tory From Daimōn to Phantasma: The Archaeology of "Knowing" as a Science MSB1.05Fabio Bucci Garment Upon Garment: Language and Truth in the Encyclopédie MSB1.21Sean Coker

1:00pm NZST

2:00pm NZST

Temporal Human Creativity and the Limits of AI Art MSB1.20Kevin Xavier Roque Pleasure, Pain, and Hedonism: Some Current Issues N3.01Andrew Moore Procreative Asymmetry, Non-Identity, and Consistency MSB1.01Takayuki Nakamura From Inner Light to Feminist Praxis: Catherine West MSB1.02Hyung Jin An Do Not Pull Apart Explanation from Grounding! MSB1.03Tarun Thapar What Determines the Content of Our Imaginings? MSB1.05Jordi Fernández Structural Injustice and Duties of Superintendence MSB1.15Matheson Russell Virtue Signalling in the Classroom MSB1.36 & 37William Tuckwell On Russell's So-Called Truth Primitivism MSB1.21Joe Ulatowski

3:00pm NZST

Against Computational Functionalism about Consciousness MSB1.20Luke Pistol Harm Reduction in Non-Suicidal Self Harm MSB1.01Snita Ahir-Knight Habitual Critique: Between Nature and Spirit MSB1.36 & 37Melvin Kivinen Depending on Others: Towards a Unified Understanding of Virtuous Belief Formation N3.01Melanie Dillon-Smith A Path Out: Considering Trans Ideal Theory and Ideal Trans Theory MSB1.02Simone Anders All Talk, No Traction: Abstracta, Explanation, and Ontological Commitment MSB1.03Alex McQuibban Are Dreams Epistemically Relevant? From Scepticism to Dream Engineering MSB1.05Gaia Mizzon Justifying a Republican Theory of Transitional Justice MSB1.15Chunlin Liu Can Truth Subvert the Inference Barriers? MSB1.21Charles Pigden

4:00pm NZST

Afternoon Break MSB Foyer

4:30pm NZST

Anxiety, Dying Authentically and Digital Duplicates for Palliative Care MSB1.20Zachary Daus Epistemic Reasons Always Lose MSB1.36 & 37Danielle Lawrence On the Special Omission Question MSB1.03Huang Ping-Wei What Makes a Sport a Sport? On Folk Intuitions about Rules and Movement in Sport MSB1.01Joe Ulatowski • Michael Hemmingsen Experiencing Inner Awareness MSB1.05Darryl Mathieson Intending and Settling Practical Questions N3.01Annelisa O'Neal Trusting God is Not Like Trusting Your Spouse MSB1.15Jared Brandon Explanatory Pluralism and the Epistemic Status of Spiritual Frameworks in Psychiatric Knowledge MSB1.02Gemma Lucy Smart A Market Failure in the Attention Economy MSB1.21Jovy Chan

6:30pm NZST

Women in Philosophy - Get Together Boulder Co.

8:30am NZST

Check-in Desk Day 4 MSB Foyer

9:00am NZST

The Systemic Stance PWCLiezl van Zyl • Stephanie Collins

10:30am NZST

Morning Break MSB Foyer

11:00am NZST

Active Joy: A Spinozist Philosophical Foundation for Serious Leisure N3.01Yazdan Mansourian Bostrom's Transhumanism: Misunderstanding the Human MSB1.36 & 37Sara Campolonghi When Your AI Partner Won't Please You MSB1.01Declan Humphreys Artwork as a Form of Indigenous Philosophical Communication MSB1.02Taylor-Jai McAlister What is Time? MSB1.03Sam Baron What is Cancer? A Pluralist Approach to Classifying Cancer as a Disease MSB1.20Hiva Sharebiani Beyond Imagination: The Absent Object and Non-Sense of the Mental MSB1.05Zeenia Bhat What's the 'Good' in Children as a Public Good? MSB1.15Alexander Forbes Accounting for the Stickiness of Conspiracy Theories MSB1.21Steve Clarke

12:00pm NZST

Agentic AI without Machine Agency MSB1.36 & 37Kenneth Howarth When, Why, and How Should We Lie to Our Friends? MSB1.01Grace Sasagi Beyond Relationality: Country as Warrant in Aboriginal Epistemology MSB1.02Blake Stockton Constructing Moral Inequality MSB1.03Suzy Killmister A Puzzle about Partner Choice MSB1.20Kangqiao Wang Brain Simulation and the Implementation Challenge for Mind Uploading MSB1.05Tonghao Liu Consciousness in Evolution: Making Monadic Panpsychism More Credulous N3.01Tarik Tijanovic A Critical Evaluation of the Global Peace Index MSB1.15Cooper Cook-Wiss How Generalism about Conspiracy Theories Misleads MSB1.21M R. X. Dentith • Charles Pigden

1:00pm NZST

2:00pm NZST

AI Ambiguity and the Contagion of Disrespect MSB1.36 & 37Brandon Yip Human Thinking in an AI Age: An Aesthetic-Dialectical Response N3.01Furkan Yazici Taking Risks for Others MSB1.01Lara Buchak Reframing Animal Ethics through Indigenous and Epic Wisdom MSB1.02Priya Gupta Constituted Group Agents MSB1.03Carolina Berrutti What Do Selectional Explanations Explain? The Neander/Sober Debate Revisited MSB1.20Justine Kingsbury The Presentness of Pain: Why We Cannot Remember a Sting MSB1.05Hao Wei Koo Something is Wrong with Extremism MSB1.15Meredith Ross-James An Account Degenerating Myth MSB1.21Ciara Foley

3:00pm NZST

Childhood Practical Reason and Dependency in the Age of GenAI MSB1.36 & 37Siavosh Sahebi Critical Reasoning of Early Greek Thinkers: Concepts of Creation N3.01Louise Fuller Conceptual Pluralism and the Umbrella Problem: A Case Study of Feldman's Two Visions of Welfare MSB1.01Joseph Burke V Reconciliation as a Philosophical Project MSB1.02Taylor-Jai McAlister • Kaz Bland A Neo-Carnapian Approach to the Problem of Empty Names MSB1.03Michael Gilchrist Biological Function Across Domains: Polysemy and Explanatory Fit MSB1.20Sam Bennett Defending Phenomenological Theories of Pleasure from the Isolability Requirement MSB1.05Jolly Cheong On Political Gaslighting MSB1.15Jess Fea Rebuilding the Good Epistemic Bubble MSB1.21Will Cailes

4:00pm NZST

Afternoon Break MSB Foyer

4:30pm NZST

Critical Thinking as a Regulator of Tolerance N3.01Nadiia Kozachenko Internally Conflicted Group Agents: Against the Coherence Condition MSB1.20Alicia M. Wach The Refutation of Ontological Nihilism MSB1.03Ihor Karivets Consciousness Does Not Have Boundaries MSB1.05Nicholas Osborn Captured Vigilance: When "Doing Your Own Research" Becomes Dangerous MSB1.21Paul Curtis A Direct Argument for B-Series Fatalism MSB1.02Zak Parsons

6:00pm NZST

Better Thinking, Better Decisions: Critical Thinking for Public & Professional Leadership MSB 1.36Sharon Amos • Kirsten Berkhout • Deb Brown • Shane Holmes • Jeremy Mayall

8:30am NZST

Check-in Desk Day 5 MSB Foyer

9:00am NZST

Agentic Ai: The New Cartesian Theatre PWCMichael Hemmingsen • Inês Hipólito

10:30am NZST

Morning Break MSB Foyer

11:00am NZST

Cognitive Value of Fiction in Relation to Perspectival Imagination MSB1.20Su-An Do Adversarial examples and AI-based knowledge MSB1.21Nikolaj JJL Pedersen Phenomenology of Disability and the Doctor/Patient Relationship MSB1.36 & 37Mikel Van Dyken Conspiracy Theories: Particularism vs Generalism vs Anti-Generalism MSB1.05Steve Clarke • M R. X. Dentith • Charles Pigden Forgiveness and the Purpose of Rememberance MSB1.01Luke Russell Religious Fictionalism: A Ritualistic Approach MSB1.15Fang-Ru Kuo Worthless Science: Against the Equivalence of Pursuits MSB1.02Luca Molinari Epistemic Errors in Prosocial Behaviour-Promoting Virtual Reality and Associated Moral Wrongs N3.01Eliana Horn

12:00pm NZST

Imagining New Narratives: Documentary Film, Trauma, and Affective Justice MSB1.20G Hanley-Steemers Revisiting Scientific Realism: Lessons from Explainable AI MSB1.21Yunus Prasetya What Does It Mean To Be 'Always Ready'? MSB1.36 & 37Leah McGarrity Doubt Aversion Theory N3.01Ted Hennicke Irrationality is in the Job Description: Why Epistemic Role Norms Imply the Permissibility of Trade-Offs MSB1.05Levi Smith Death and Lament: A Deprivationist Argument Against Lamenting Death MSB1.01Ryota Ishihara Hermeneutic Religious Fictionalism: A Defence MSB1.15Stuart Brock Gaston Bachelard's Non-Kantian Philosophy of Science in the Philosophy of No MSB1.02Jacob Ritz The Symmetry of Epistemic Resistance MSB1.03Russell Blackford

1:00pm NZST

2:00pm NZST

Aesthetic Resonance and Imagined Community: Rethinking the Social Basis of Aesthetic Value MSB1.20Kai Wang Outputs First: Rethinking Bullshit in Large Language Models MSB1.21Jeremy Wyatt The Double Bind of Self: Cultural Legacies that Affect Critical Thinking and Experience N3.01Pru Steinerts Some Varieties of Particularism MSB1.05M R. X. Dentith A sympathetic response to skepticism about empathy MSB1.36 & 37Talia Morag Thibodeau and the Horrendous Deeds Objection: A Reply MSB1.15Matthew Flannagan An Evolutionary Debunking Argument Against Theoretical Parsimony MSB1.02James Vlachoulis Discerning Truthfulness and the Fear of Betrayal MSB1.03Sanford Goldberg

3:00pm NZST

Film and the Mode of Dream MSB1.36 & 37David Macarthur Pluralistic World Views, AI Adoption, and Trustworthy AI MSB1.21Daniel Wilson The Misuse of Slippery Slope Arguments by VAD Opponents N3.01Jessie McDonnell Contextualism, a Challenge from Experimental Philosophy MSB1.05Hsin Che Wang Product Boycott: Morally Good Boycotts vs Morally Bad Boycotts MSB1.01Ritam Chakraborty Are Phenomenal Properties Dispositional? MSB1.20Cecilia Hunt Lucid Reflections: Moral Injury Turning the Earth MSB1.15Paige Maguire Structuralism in Loop Quantum Gravity MSB1.02Aiden Meyer Is Truth Correspondence, Coherence, Pragmatic Utility? - A Decision Procedure MSB1.03Gila Sher

4:00pm NZST

Afternoon Break MSB Foyer

4:30pm NZST

Taxonomically Transformative Technologies: AI, Conceptual Engineering, and Hermeneutical Impoverishment MSB1.21Lena Wang Between Reason and Desire: Brandom on the Moral Valet MSB1.36 & 37Duncan Law • Nicole Pepperell Deliberative Strategic Action N3.01Michael Demetrius Accipere Aude: Autonomy, Illumination, and the Necessity of Epistemic Humility in Immanuel Kant and St Augustine MSB1.20Justin Sean Luis Canaria Confidentiality, Assertion, and Finite Inquiry MSB1.05Anish Seal Is there an obligation not to incentivise dishonesty? MSB1.01Tim Dare Mental Disorders, Symptom Networks, and Dispositions MSB1.02Simon Keller Defending egalitarianism against merited hierarchy MSB1.15Leo Rogers Why Does Truth Seem Valuable? MSB1.03Tamaki Komada

7:00pm NZST

CONFERENCE DINNER 2026 Reggies