Australasian Association of Philosophy Annual Conference

Abstracts

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The table below shows all papers that have been accepted for presentation at AAP 2012. If you've just submitted a paper, it will take about a day to appear.

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	Title	First Name	Surname	Institution	Title of Paper
	Dr	Miri	Albahari	University of Western Australia	Can consciousness observe its own impermanence in Buddhist meditation?
	Associate Professor	Neil	Levy	Florey Neuroscience Institutes	Consciousness and moral responsibility
	Dr	Richard Paul	Hamilton	University of Notre Dame Australia	Capitalist Viciousness
	Ms	Rachael	Brown	Australian National University	Fighting Toads with Toads - Extending the Evolutionary Reach of Learning
	Mr	Paul	Boswell	University of Michigan	Fiction and Idea in Hume's Treatise
	Mr	Benjamin	Miller	Stanford University	Justifying the Civic Virtue
	Mr	Adrian	Currie	Australia National University	Beyond Tracecentrism
	Ms	Jacqueline	Boaks	University of Western Australia	Evil Princes and noble Philosopher-Kings
	Miss	Georgie	Statham	University of Western Australia	Causes as Deviations from the Normal
	Dr	Richard	Corry	University of Tasmania	Powers Take the Field
	Dr	John	Howes	Learningguild	Plato’s questions: what is aretē, and is it something taught?
	Dr	Adriane	Rini	Massey University	The Well Proportioned Syllogism
	Dr	Daniel	Cohen	Charles Sturt University	Wrongful Life
	Mr	Alex	Silk	University of Michigan	Evidence-Sensitivity in Weak Necessity Deontic Modals
	Mr	Alexander	Sandgren	ANU	Informative names
	Prof.	Max	Cresswell	Victoria University of Wellington	A Lockian Geometric Demonstration
	Mr	Mirko	Farina	Macquarie University	Transforming the Enculturated Mind:Sensory Substitution and Complementarity
	Dr	Ramon	Das	Victoria University of Wellington	Humanitarian intervention and non-ideal theory
	Dr	Ali	Saboohi	IPM	cognitive phenomenology and the new hard problem for physicalism
	Dr	Russell	Blackford	University of Newcastle	Mythicism About Jesus of Nazareth - What Are Our Standards?
	Ms.	Rachel	Schneebaum	University of Arizona/ANU	Introspection without Phenomenal Consciousness
	Mr	Lachlan	Doughney	La Trobe University	The folk psychology of attention
	Professor	Peter Shiu-Hwa	Tsu	Taipei Medical University	Shapelessness and Conceptual Incompetence: A Limited Defense of Moral Particularism
	Mr	Nicholas	Best	Indiana University	Incommensurability at the level of theory of reference: An example from the history of chemistry
	Ms	Louise	Richardson-Self	University of Sydney	Justifying Same-Sex Marriage: A Feminist Alliance with the Basic Right to Justification
	Mr	Dejan	Simkovic	The University of Sydney	Clarke and Hume on moral phenomenology: an unlikely alliance against skepticism
	Ms	Sarah Elizabeth	Holmes	The George Washington University	The Exceptionalism Plane: Quantifying Cultural "Self-Love" at the International Level
	Asst. Prof.	Teru	Miyake	Nanyang Technological University	Confirmation and Exploration in Newton's Principia
	Professor	Erik	Anderson	Drew University	Nature, Cognition, and Positive Aesthetics
	Prof.	Ching	Keng	National Chengchi Univeristy, Taipei, Taiwan	Two Stages of “Reality”—On the debate between Garfield and Gold about the Trisvabhāvanirdeśa
	Prof.	Fei-Ting	Chen	National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan	A Hylomorphic Proposal of an Aristotelian Event
	Mr	Anton	Killin	Victoria University of Wellington	Fictionalism about musical works
	Professor	Daniel	Nolan	ANU	Say It But Don't Mean It
	Dr	Suzy	Killmister	Massey University	Moral Responsibility and Personal Autonomy
	Dr	Gregory	Strom	University of Sydney	Deviant Causal Chains, De Re Knowledge and Weakness of the Will
	Dr	Peter	Forrest	UNE	Naturalness in mathematics and the case for Natural Structuralism
	Prof.	Dongping	Fan	School of Public Administration, South China Normal University\Guangzhou China	Emergence and Irreducibility of Scientific Knowledge
	Dr.	Tudor	Baetu	Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research	A multilevel approach to understanding species
	Dr	Mohammad Mehdi	Naderi	Islamic Azad University, Azadshahr Branch	Introduction to the objectivity and nature of Farabi,s political philosophy
	Mr.	D.M.	Gray	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Living to See Another Day
	Prof.	Guoan	Dong	Institute of Philosophy, School of public Administration, South China Normal Uni	The Right of Uniqueness：A Kind of Right Needed in Bioethics
	Mr.	Mark Anthony	Dacela	De La Salle University - Manila, Philippines	Are Modal Conditions Necessary for Knowledge?
	Dr	Stuart	Brock	Victoria University of Wellington	A Puzzle about Exporting from Fiction
	Dr.	Richard	Hou	Department of Philosophy, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan	Epistemic Possibility and Zhuang Zhou’s Butterfly Dream
	Dr	Jeremiah Joven	Joaquin	De La Salle University	Sidering Prior's Tonk
	Dr	Shane	Waugh	University of Wollongong	Humility, Ignorance and Inattention
	Dr	Linton	Wang	National Chung Cheng University	The Contextualist* Anguish at Epistemic Possibilities
	Prof.	Andres	Luco	Nanyang Technological University	Tracing the Moral Arc: Moral Properties in a Functionalist Theory of Social Change
	Dr	Tom	Dougherty	University of Sydney	Sex, Lies and Consent
	Mr.	Azam	Golam	La Trobe University	Tolerance Based Multiculturalism in South Asia: The Case of India
	Dr	Jack	Reynolds	La Trobe	Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics: Complementary Anti-theoretical Ethical Trajectories?
	Mr	Phillip	Krohn	Monash University	Obligations to Future Persons
	Mr	Kim	Shaw-Williams	R.S.S.S, ANU	The Triggering Track-ways Theory
	Mr.	Nathan	Eckstrand	Duquesne University	Problematics and possibilities in philosophies of change: Comparing Hegel and Ch'eng I
	Prof.	Chung-I	Lin	Institute of Humanities in Medicine, Taipei Medical University	Fine-grained argument and conceptualism
	Dr.	Tristram	McPherson	Virginia Tech/Melbourne	What is at stake in debates between normative realists?
	Dr	Hartley	Slater	University of Western Australia	Logic is not Mathematical
	Ms	Stephanie	Lewis	MCM LLC	Where (in Logical space) is God
	Prof	Xiaoping	Chen	Institute of Philosophy, School of public Administration, South China Normal Uni	The Right of Uniqueness：A Kind of Right Needed in Bioethics
	Dr.	Glenn	Carruthers	Macquarie University	Making sense of spousal revenge filicide: a disordered person perception hypothesis
	Dr.	Peter	Bowden	University of Sydney	Ethics across the disciplines
	Ms	Rianna	Oelofsen	University of Fort Hare, South Africa	Reconciliation according to an Afro-communitarian understanding of ‘human being’
	Ms	Elizabeth	Sund	Monash University	Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s Theory of Moral Obligation: A Lockean Bridge Between Hutcheson and Clarke
	Ms	Denise	Vigani	Graduate Center, CUNY	Moral Judgments and Identity-Based Motivation
	Dr	David	Ripley	University of Melbourne	Naive set theory and nontransitive logic
	Dr	Joshua	May	Monash University	Does Disgust Influence Moral Judgment?
	Prof	Michel	Ghins	Universite catholique de Louvain	An Intrinsic Criterion for Causal Lawlike Statements
	Dr	Michelle	Montague	University of Bristol	Content and awareness of awareness