AAP 2026 CONFERENCE

AAP 2026 CONFERENCE

Michael Hemmingsen

Tunghai University

Taiwan

https://michaelhemmingsen.com/

4:00pm NZST

Conference Welcome PWCDan Weijers • Neil Quigley • Tracy Bowell

4:30pm NZST

Neurocentrism, Eurocentrism, and the Politics of Constructive Memory - PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS PWCTracy Bowell • John Sutton

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

12:00pm NZST

Resisting for the Wrongdoer's Sake: A Neglected Justification for Moral Resistance MSB1.15Pei Yu

1:00pm NZST

Lunch MSB Foyer

2:00pm NZST

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

4:00pm NZST

Afternoon Break MSB Foyer

4:30pm NZST

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

9:00am NZST

Truth and History PWCJoe Ulatowski • Michael Lynch

10:30am NZST

Morning Break MSB Foyer

11:00am NZST

The Environmental Ethics of Overpopulation N3.01Catherine McDonald

12:00pm NZST

Interspecies Population Ethics N3.01James Curtin

2:00pm NZST

Virtue Signalling in the Classroom MSB1.36 & 37William Tuckwell

3:00pm NZST

Against Computational Functionalism about Consciousness MSB1.20Luke Pistol

4:00pm NZST

Afternoon Break MSB Foyer

9:00am NZST

The Systemic Stance PWCLiezl van Zyl • Stephanie Collins

10:30am NZST

Morning Break MSB Foyer

11:00am NZST

Accounting for the Stickiness of Conspiracy Theories MSB1.21Steve Clarke

12:00pm NZST

Agentic AI without Machine Agency MSB1.36 & 37Kenneth Howarth

1:00pm NZST

2:00pm NZST

AI Ambiguity and the Contagion of Disrespect MSB1.36 & 37Brandon Yip

3:00pm NZST

On Political Gaslighting MSB1.15Jess Fea

4:00pm NZST

Afternoon Break MSB Foyer

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

9:00am NZST

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

10:30am NZST

Morning Break MSB Foyer

11:00am NZST

Adversarial examples and AI-based knowledge MSB1.21Nikolaj JJL Pedersen

12:00pm NZST

Death and Lament: A Deprivationist Argument Against Lamenting Death MSB1.01Ryota Ishihara

1:00pm NZST

3:00pm NZST

Contextualism, a Challenge from Experimental Philosophy MSB1.05Hsin Che Wang

4:00pm NZST

Afternoon Break MSB Foyer

4:30pm NZST

Why Does Truth Seem Valuable? MSB1.03Tamaki Komada

7:00pm NZST

CONFERENCE DINNER 2026 Reggies

My Chair Sessions

9:00am NZST

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