Australasian Association of Philosophy Annual Conference

Abstracts

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The following papers have been accepted for presentation at AAP 2013. If you've just submitted an abstract, it may take a few days to appear.

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	Title	First Name	Surname	Institution	Title of Paper
	Dr	Steve	Clarke	Charles Sturt University and the University of Oxford	The Cognitive Science of Religion and the Nature of Evil
	Dr	Caroline	West	University of Sydney	Is there any such thing as happiness?
	Dr	Joanne	Faulkner	University of NSW	“Our own Hurricane Katrina”: The Temporality of Catastrophe in Representations of Aboriginal Disadvantage
	Mr.	Chong-Ming	Lim	National University of Singapore	The problem of considered moral judgements
	Dr	Alberto	Giubilini	Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) Charles Sturt University	The anemic concept of “conscience”. Problems with conscientious objection in medicine
	Mr	Andrew	Latham	University of Sydney	My Intention to Act and My Intended Act: Dissociative Roles of Conscious Intent
	Dr	Sally	Shrapnel	UQ	Quantum Causal Explanation.
	Mr	Charles	Gibson	University of Otago	Epistemic Novelty and the Scandal of Deduction
	Dr	Sean	Bowden	Deakin University	Objective Constraint in Brandom and Deleuze
	Dr.	Julia	Staffel	University of Southern California	Disagreement and Epistemic Utility-Based Compromise
	Mr	Brenton	Dart	University of Sydney	Hume, Diderot, Williams and what they can teach us about political realism
	Mr.	James	Darcy	University of Otago	The Troublesome Relations of Ersatzer Presentism
	Dr	Dan	Marshall	University of Hong Kong	The Varieties of Intrinsicality
	Dr	Mihaela	Popa	University of Birmingham	Embedded irony, speech-acts, and the semantics/pragmatics distinction
	Dr	christine	swanton	university of auckland	Has Virtue Ethics Sold Out?
	Dr	Seth	Lazar	Australian National University	Mathematical Expectation and Infinite Killing
	Dr	SImon	Duffy	Yale-NUS College	A deflationary account of Deleuze’s metaphysics
	Miss	Tracy	Llanera	Macquarie University	Of Private Selves and Public Morals: Philosophy and Literature in Modernity
	Mr.	Parzhad	Torfehnezhad	Université de Montréal	In Carnap’s Defense
	Mr	Doug	McConnell	Macquarie University	Fatal stories: narrative motivation and addiction
	Emeritus Professor	John	Bigelow	Monash University	Chance and the variety of ways
	Mrs	Emma	Wood	Victoria University of Wellington	Considerations, Reasons, and the three Internalisms
	Dr	Sandra	Field	Yale-NUS College	Does tobacco prohibition violate Millian liberalism?
	Mr	Gary	Goh	National University of Singapore	How do we know what the Aristotelian Phronimos knows?
	Mr	Alexander	Sandgren	ANU	Content in an over-generous world
	Dr	Colin	Klein	Australian National University	What is your brain doing when you're not doing anything?
	Mr	Md Altaf	Hossain	Macquarie University	Music, Improvisation and Nietzsche
	Dr.	Sara	Bernstein	Duke University	Possible Causation
	Dr.	Monte	Pemberton	UQ	Winch's Internal Relations
	Professor	Michael	Smith	Princeton University	Van Roojen on The Humean Theory of Motivation and the Humean Theory of Rationality
	Prof	Max	Cresswell	Victoria University of Wellington	Knowing and Being
	Dr	Ramon	Das	Victoria University of Wellington	Virtue and right action
	Dr	Luara	Ferracioli	Princeton University	The Anarchist's Myth
	Associate Professor	Cecilia	Wee	National University of Singapore	The Fourth Meditation and Libertarian Freedom
	Associate Professor	Howard	Sankey	University of Melbourne	Scepticism, relativism and Chisholm-style particularism
	Assoc. Prof.	Jack	Reynolds	La Trobe	Phenomenology and Inter-subjectivity today: A Necessary But Not Sufficient Condition?
	Mr.	Daniel	Vanello	University of Warwick, UK	A Sartrean Challenge to Humeanism About Motivation
	Dr	Timothy	O'Leary	University of Hong Kong	“Go Watch TV!”: Mad Men's Moral Intuitions
	Mr	Martin	Vacek	Slovak Academy of Sciences	Modal Realism and Impossible Worlds
	Prof	Graham	Oppy	Monash	Successful Arguments
	Mr	Daniel	Brennan	Bond University	Aristotle, Jan Patocka and Vaclav Havel on What can be expected of one?
	Professor	Daniel	Nolan	ANU	Hyperintensional Metaphysics
	Dr.	Adrian	Walsh	University of New England	Austerity, Citizens Rights and Just War Theory
	Ms	Angela K.	Martin	University of Geneva (Switzerland)	Wronging Animals without Harming them? A Philosophical Investigation
	Ms	Lynne	Bowyer	Bioethics Centre, University of Otago	Human Identity: We are not Parfitian fictions
	Mr	William	Balthes	University of Queensland	A Resolution to Some Single Case Woes: An Amended Fetzer-Nute Calculus and the Problem of Probabilistic Finks.
	Mr	Morgan	Gibson	University of Queensland	Postmodernism, Critical Theory and Emancipation
	Dr	Michelle	Boulous Walker	The University of Queensland	Philosophy and the Present of Reading
	Mr	Cristian	Soto	The University of Melbourne / Universidad de Chile	Jack Smart’s Scientific Realism: on Scientism and Common Sense
	Professor	David	Pitt	California State University, Los Angeles USA	The Paraphenomenal Hypothesis
	Mr	Johannes	Himmelreich	London School of Economics	A trilemma that leads to extended agency
	Mr	Kenneth	Chong	National University of Singapore	The modal argument against temporal parts and Sider’s counterpart-theoretic response: A closer look
	Prof	Peter	Anstey	University of Sydney	Principles in Early Modern Philosophy: A Provisional Taxonomy
	Dr.	Manya	Raman Sundström	Umeå University	Beauty and explanation in mathematics
	Professor	Christopher	Hitchcock	California Institute of Technology	Disagreement and Synergy
	Ms	Melissa	Schumacher	Massachusetts Institute Of Technology	How to Have KK and Solve the Surprise Exam Paradox Too
	Dr	Craig	Edwards	UWA	Problems with the Easy Justification
	Mr	Brentyn	Ramm	The Australian National University	The Transparency of Awareness
	Mr	Alexey	Aliyev	University of Maryland	Three Problems for Musical Perdurantism
	Prof.	Andres	Luco	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	Categorical Enough: A Moral Naturalist Defense of Categorical Reasons for Action
	Dr.	Philippe	Chuard	SMU (Southern Methodist University)	Temporal Experiences: the snapshot view
	Dr	Sam	Baron	University of Sydney	Rules of the Game
	Professor	Alex	Miller	University of Otago	Blind Rule Following
	Dr	Antony	Eagle	University of Adelaide	Presentism Without Passage
	Dr.	Simon	Keller	Victoria University Wellington	Is Love a Mistake?
	Prof	Paul	Teller	University of California at Davis	Separating Truth from its Idealization
	Dr	Jordi	Fernandez	University of Adelaide	Externalism and memory: A two-dimensionalist approach
	Dr	Sondra	Bacharach	Victoria University of Wellington	Talking in the Streets
	Prof	Michel	Ghins	Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique	An Intrinsic Criterion for Causal Lawlike Statements
	Prof	David	Spurrett	University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)	Intragenomic conflict and common currencies
	Dr	Glenn	Carruthers	Macquarie University	Out of Body Experiences tell us something about consciousness after all (but not that it’s magic)
	Dr	Suzy	Killmister	University of Connecticut / Massey University	What About Woody Allen?
	Dr.	Holly	Lawford-Smith	University of Sheffield	Australia & Australians' Climate Obligations
	Dr	James	Phillips	The University of New South Wales	Hobbes’s Covenant as a Satire on Presbyterians and Democrats