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
	Mr	Ali	Abedi Renani	The Australian National University	A Deontological Interpretation and Improvement of Alasdair MacIntyre’s Moral Thought
	Dr	Miri	Albahari	University of Western Australia	Can consciousness observe its own impermanence in Buddhist meditation?
	Mr	Nikolai	Alksnis	La Trobe University	The Limits of Affordances
	Professor	Erik	Anderson	Drew University	Nature, Cognition, and Positive Aesthetics
	Dr	Sondra	Bacharach	Victoria University of Wellington	Street Art
	Dr.	Tudor	Baetu	Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research	A multilevel approach to understanding species
	Ms	Alma	Barner	ANU	How to imagine a million bodies – A defense of the Simple View
	Dr	Sam	Baron	University of Sydney	Optimisation and Mathematical Explanation: Doing the Lévy Walk
	Mr	Paul	Barry	La Trobe University	Making Sense of Singer: Utilitarianism, Equality and Racism
	Prof.	Jc	Beall	University of Connecticut & University of Otago	Gaps, Gluts, and Choices
	Dr.	Chris	Bessemans	Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)	Moral conflicts and moral awareness
	Mr	Nicholas	Best	Indiana University	Incommensurability at the level of theory of reference: An example from the history of chemistry
	Mr.	Max	Bialek	University of Maryland, College Park	Hoefer's Justification of the Principal Principle
	Dr	Russell	Blackford	University of Newcastle	Mythicism About Jesus of Nazareth - What Are Our Standards?
	Ms	Karen	Bland	The University of Adelaide	The Compatibility of Pragmatism and Pluralism
	Dr	Ben	Blumson	National University of Singapore	Properties and Probabilities
	Ms	Jacqueline	Boaks	University of Western Australia	Evil Princes and noble Philosopher-Kings
	Dr	Rachael	Boch	Brigham Young University	Internalism, Externalism, and Epistemic Normativism
	Ms	Mara	Bollard	University of Sydney	Psychopathy, Autism and Questions of Moral Agency
	Mr	Paul	Boswell	University of Michigan	Fiction and Idea in Hume's Treatise
	Mr	Pierrick	Bourrat	University of Sydney	Evolution by natural selection and the problem of heritability
	Prof.	Christophe	Bouton	University of Bordeaux 3 - Michel de Montaigne/IUF	The Emergence of Time (Kant, Bergson and Modern Physics)
	Dr.	Peter	Bowden	University of Sydney	Ethics across the disciplines
	Mr	Ben	Bramble	University of Sydney	The right form of welfarism about value
	Dr	Wylie	Breckenridge	Charles Sturt University	Theseus, Parthood, Performance
	Dr	Stuart	Brock	Victoria University of Wellington	A Puzzle About Fictional Characters
	Ms	Rachael	Brown	Australian National University	Fighting Toads with Toads - Extending the Evolutionary Reach of Learning
	Mr	Adam	Bugeja	Australian National University	Non-cognitivism and the 'wishful thinking' objection
	Ms	Jennifer	Carr	MIT	Subjective 'Ought'
	Dr.	Glenn	Carruthers	Macquarie University	Making sense of spousal revenge filicide: a disordered person perception hypothesis
	Prof.	David	Chalmers	Australian National University	Two Concepts of Metaphysical Possibility
	Dr	James	Chase	University of Tasmania	Disagreement and Methodological Difference in Philosophy
	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
	Prof.	Fei-Ting	Chen	National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan	A Hylomorphic Proposal of an Aristotelian Event
	Dr	David	Coady	University of Tasmania	Rumour, Conspiracy Theory and Propaganda
	Dr	Daniel	Cohen	Charles Sturt University	Has Smith solved the Moral Problem?
	Dr	Richard	Corry	University of Tasmania	Powers Take the Field
	Mr	Tama	Coutts	The University of Sydney	Lepore and Ludwig on the Principle of Charity
	Prof.	Max	Cresswell	Victoria University of Wellington	A Lockian Geometric Demonstration
	Dr	Patrick	Crogan	University of the West of England, Bristol	Editing Experience: Bernard Stiegler and Film Theory/History
	Mr	Ben	Cross	University of Sydney	“Incentives, Inequality, and Virtue: A Case for Perfection”
	Prof	Garrett	Cullity	University of Adelaide	Reasons and Fit
	Mr	Adrian	Currie	Australia National University	Beyond Tracecentrism
	Mr.	Mark Anthony	Dacela	De La Salle University - Manila, Philippines	Are Modal Conditions Necessary for Knowledge?
	Dr	Ramon	Das	Victoria University of Wellington	Humanitarian intervention and non-ideal theory
	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
	Dr	Tom	Dougherty	University of Sydney	Sex, Lies and Consent
	Mr	Lachlan	Doughney	La Trobe University	The folk psychology of attention
	Dr	Zoe	Drayson	ANU	On The Level
	Mr	Andrew	Dunstall	Macquarie University	A new philosophy of history?
	Mr.	Nathan	Eckstrand	Duquesne University	Problematics and possibilities in philosophies of change: Comparing Hegel and Ch'eng I
	Mr	Edward	Elliott	ANU	Fregeanism and the Referential Capacities of the Very Young
	Prof.	Dongping	Fan	School of Public Administration, South China Normal University\Guangzhou China	Emergence and Irreducibility of Scientific Knowledge
	Mr	Mirko	Farina	Macquarie University	Transforming the Enculturated Mind:Sensory Substitution and Complementarity
	Mr	Anson	Fehross	University of Sydney	Consequentialism With A Clue: A causal refutation of the Epistemic Problem
	Ms	Sandra	Field	Princeton University	Two errors of absolutism: Hobbes and Spinoza
	Dr	Paul	Formosa	Macquarie University	Dignity and Respect: Understanding Kant’s Formula of Humanity
	Ms	Emma	Fox	Latrobe University	The problem with pain asymbolia
	Dr	Ben	Fraser	Australian National University	Moral error theories and folk metaethics
	Ms	Eliza	Goddard	University of Tasmania	Not Just a Pipeline Problem: Improving Women’s Participation in Philosophy in Australia
	Prof	Peter	Godfrey-Smith	The Graduate Centre, CUNY	Sender-receiver models and animal signaling
	Mr.	Azam	Golam	La Trobe University	Tolerance Based Multiculturalism in South Asia: The Case of India
	Mr.	D.M.	Gray	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Living to See Another Day
	Prof	Paul	Griffiths	University of Sydney	Where is the philosophy of emotion going?
	Dr	Jason	Grossman	Australian National University	How is it possible for a majority of scientists to be wrong about their own concepts?
	Dr	Alan	Hajek	Australian National University	Philosophical Heuristics II
	Dr	Richard Paul	Hamilton	University of Notre Dame Australia	Capitalist Viciousness
	Mr	Matthew	Hammerton	Australian National University	Are all duties directed?
	Dr	Toby	Handfield	Monash University	The ethics of extinction
	Mr	Johann	Hariman	University of Sydney	A Ground-Theoretic Approach to the Fundamentality Question
	Dr.	William	Harper	University of Western Ontario	Isaac Newton's Scientific Method
	Ms	Hedda	Hassel	University of Oslo	Phenomenology of agency as experience of causation
	Mr	William	Hebblewhite	Latrobe University	The Internet and The Problem of Anonymity
	Professor	Stephen	Hetherington	University of New South Wales	The Gettier problem as an infallibilist confusion
	Mr	Adam	Hochman	The University of Sydney	Conflations of proximate and evolutionary explanation
	Ms	Sarah Elizabeth	Holmes	The George Washington University	The Exceptionalism Plane: Quantifying Cultural "Self-Love" at the International Level
	Dr.	Richard	Hou	Department of Philosophy, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan	Epistemic Possibility and Zhuang Zhou’s Butterfly Dream
	Dr	John	Howes	Learningguild	Plato’s questions: what is aretē, and is it something taught?
	Mr.	Michael	Hughes	University of Connecticut	Lehrer’s Solution to the Preface and the Lottery: New Formal Problems
	Associate Professor	Ian	Hunt	Flinders University	Marx and Rawls on the Justice of Capitalism and the Market: A Possible Synthesis?
	Dr	Katrina	Hutchison	Macquarie University	Sages and cranks: the difficulty of identifying 'first rate' philosophers
	Dr	Lina	Jansson	Nanyang Technological University	Asymmetrical ontological dependence: Essence, Socrates, and the singleton set containing Socrates
	Dr	Fiona	Jenkins	Australian National university	Singing the Post-Discrimination Blues: Notes for a Critique of Academic Meritocracy
	Dr	Jeremiah Joven	Joaquin	De La Salle University	Sidering Prior's Tonk
	Mr	David	Kalkman	Monash Unviersity	The Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR): Evolutionary Debunking of Religion
	Mr	Kevin	Keith	University of Sydney	Homology and Mechanism in Developmental Cognitive Science: The Case of Attachment Theory
	Prof.	Ching	Keng	National Chengchi Univeristy, Taipei, Taiwan	Two Stages of “Reality”—On the debate between Garfield and Gold about the Trisvabhāvanirdeśa
	Prof	Jeanette	Kennett	Macquarie University	Addiction: Choice or Disease? How voluntary is voluntary behaviour in addiction
	Mr	Anton	Killin	Victoria University of Wellington	Fictionalism about musical works
	Dr	Suzy	Killmister	Massey University	Moral Responsibility and Personal Autonomy
	Dr	Nin	Kirkham	UWA	Transcending our Biology: The Appeal to Nature in Virtue Ethics
	Mr	Phillip	Krohn	Monash University	Obligations to Future Persons
	Dr	Hongwoo	Kwon	University of Sydney	The Real Lesson from So-Called Immunity to Error through Misidentification
	Dr	Adam	La Caze	The University of Queensland	Standards of evidence and the ethics of randomized trials
	Dr.	Andy	Lamey	Monash University	Ecosystems as Spontaneous Orders
	Dr.	John	Lamont	none	The demise of the Eleatic Principle
	Dr.	Holly	Lawford-Smith	Australian National University	Benefiting from Failures to Address Climate Change
	Associate Professor	Neil	Levy	Florey Neuroscience Institutes	Consciousness and moral responsibility
	Dr	Arnon	Levy	Van Leer Institute	Model Organisms aren't Models
	Ms	Stephanie	Lewis	MCM LLC	Where (in Logical space) is God