AAP 2026 CONFERENCE

AAP 2026 CONFERENCE

JF

Jason Foster

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BA Hons (Politics, Monash), GCA (Sociology, UNE), MA (Philosophy, UNE), MPP (Politics and Policy, Deakin).
Planning to apply to become a research student (Masters or PhD) in Philosophy.

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

9:00am NZST

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

11:00am NZST

Making Sense of Pain MSB1.36 & 37Deb Brown Vallalar's Unique Epistemology MSB1.15Priyadharshini Muthukannan 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 Doxastic Dilemma and Its Normative Problem MSB1.05Po-Wei Chuang Relational Close-Mindedness MSB1.02Heather Battaly Against the Causal Indpendence Principle of Counterfactuals MSB1.20Joshua Pearson

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 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 Wittgenstein's Tractatus on a Conception of the Philosophy of Language MSB1.20Limmalu Udaya Kumar

4:30pm NZST

Diachrony and Hopeful Asymmetry in Levinas: Shame Beyond Ethical Collapse N3.01Jaeseok Choi A Brentanian Solution to the Partiality Problem MSB1.15Shintaro Takahashi

9:00am NZST

Truth and History PWCJoe Ulatowski • Michael Lynch

11:00am NZST

A Property Theory of Natural Laws MSB1.03John Bigelow • Martin Leckey

12:00pm NZST

Locative and Mereological Coincidence: Beyond the Monism/Pluralism Taxonomy MSB1.03Jordan Lee-Tory

2:00pm NZST

Do Not Pull Apart Explanation from Grounding! MSB1.03Tarun Thapar

3:00pm NZST

Habitual Critique: Between Nature and Spirit MSB1.36 & 37Melvin Kivinen All Talk, No Traction: Abstracta, Explanation, and Ontological Commitment MSB1.03Alex McQuibban Justifying a Republican Theory of Transitional Justice MSB1.15Chunlin Liu

4:30pm NZST

On the Special Omission Question MSB1.03Huang Ping-Wei

9:00am NZST

The Systemic Stance PWCLiezl van Zyl • Stephanie Collins

11:00am NZST

What is Time? MSB1.03Sam Baron What's the 'Good' in Children as a Public Good? MSB1.15Alexander Forbes

12:00pm NZST

Constructing Moral Inequality MSB1.03Suzy Killmister Brain Simulation and the Implementation Challenge for Mind Uploading MSB1.05Tonghao Liu

2:00pm NZST

Human Thinking in an AI Age: An Aesthetic-Dialectical Response N3.01Furkan Yazici Constituted Group Agents MSB1.03Carolina Berrutti

3:00pm NZST

Critical Reasoning of Early Greek Thinkers: Concepts of Creation N3.01Louise Fuller A Neo-Carnapian Approach to the Problem of Empty Names MSB1.03Michael Gilchrist Biological Function Across Domains: Polysemy and Explanatory Fit MSB1.20Sam Bennett

4:30pm NZST

Critical Thinking as a Regulator of Tolerance N3.01Nadiia Kozachenko The Refutation of Ontological Nihilism MSB1.03Ihor Karivets

9:00am NZST

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

11:00am NZST

Cognitive Value of Fiction in Relation to Perspectival Imagination MSB1.20Su-An Do

12:00pm NZST

What Does It Mean To Be 'Always Ready'? MSB1.36 & 37Leah McGarrity

2:00pm NZST

Aesthetic Resonance and Imagined Community: Rethinking the Social Basis of Aesthetic Value MSB1.20Kai Wang The Double Bind of Self: Cultural Legacies that Affect Critical Thinking and Experience N3.01Pru Steinerts

3:00pm NZST

Film and the Mode of Dream MSB1.36 & 37David Macarthur The Misuse of Slippery Slope Arguments by VAD Opponents N3.01Jessie McDonnell Are Phenomenal Properties Dispositional? MSB1.20Cecilia Hunt

4:30pm NZST

Between Reason and Desire: Brandom on the Moral Valet MSB1.36 & 37Duncan Law • Nicole Pepperell Deliberative Strategic Action N3.01Michael Demetrius Defending egalitarianism against merited hierarchy MSB1.15Leo Rogers