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.	Sean	McKenna	ACU	Bespoke or Off The Rack: choosing roles that suit
	Professor	Daniel	Nolan	ANU	Say It But Don't Mean It
	Mr	Alexander	Sandgren	ANU	Informative names
	Professor	Daniel	Stoljar	ANU	Self-Intimation and Necessity
	Dr	Wolfgang	Schwarz	ANU	Worms First! In defense of diachronic rationality
	Dr	Paolo	Santorio	ANU	Descriptions as Variables
	Mr	Edward	Elliott	ANU	Fregeanism and the Referential Capacities of the Very Young
	Dr	Zoe	Drayson	ANU	On The Level
	Ms	Alma	Barner	ANU	How to imagine a million bodies – A defense of the Simple View
	Mr	Adrian	Currie	Australia National University	Beyond Tracecentrism
	Ms	Rachael	Brown	Australian National University	Fighting Toads with Toads - Extending the Evolutionary Reach of Learning
	Prof.	David	Chalmers	Australian National University	Two Concepts of Metaphysical Possibility
	Dr	Alan	Hajek	Australian National University	Philosophical Heuristics II
	Dr	David	Wiens	Australian National University	Preserving Harm
	Dr	Jason	Grossman	Australian National University	How is it possible for a majority of scientists to be wrong about their own concepts?
	Dr	Fiona	Jenkins	Australian National university	Singing the Post-Discrimination Blues: Notes for a Critique of Academic Meritocracy
	Dr.	Holly	Lawford-Smith	Australian National University	Benefiting from Failures to Address Climate Change
	Ms	Susan	Pennings	Australian National University	Virtue Ethics and Experimental Psychology
	Dr	Ben	Fraser	Australian National University	Moral error theories and folk metaethics
	Mr	Brentyn	Ramm	Australian National University	What is the subject of experience?
	Mr	Adam	Bugeja	Australian National University	Non-cognitivism and the 'wishful thinking' objection
	Dr.	Jonathan	Simon	Australian National University	'Consciousness' Is Not Vague
	Mr	Matthew	Hammerton	Australian National University	Are all duties directed?
	Dr	Rachael	Boch	Brigham Young University	Internalism, Externalism, and Epistemic Normativism
	Dr	Wylie	Breckenridge	Charles Sturt University	Theseus, Parthood, Performance
	Dr	Morgan	Luck	Charles Sturt University	Is it wrong for Nagel to hope that there exists no God?
	Dr	Daniel	Cohen	Charles Sturt University	Has Smith solved the Moral Problem?
	Dr	Jeremiah Joven	Joaquin	De La Salle University	Sidering Prior's Tonk
	Mr.	Mark Anthony	Dacela	De La Salle University - Manila, Philippines	Are Modal Conditions Necessary for Knowledge?
	Mr	Chris	Pollard	Deakin University	Is Merleau-Ponty’s position in 'Phenomenology of Perception' a new form of Transcendental Idealism?
	Dr.	Richard	Hou	Department of Philosophy, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan	Epistemic Possibility and Zhuang Zhou’s Butterfly Dream
	Professor	Erik	Anderson	Drew University	Nature, Cognition, and Positive Aesthetics
	Mr.	Nathan	Eckstrand	Duquesne University	Problematics and possibilities in philosophies of change: Comparing Hegel and Ch'eng I
	Associate Professor	Ian	Hunt	Flinders University	Marx and Rawls on the Justice of Capitalism and the Market: A Possible Synthesis?
	Associate Professor	Neil	Levy	Florey Neuroscience Institutes	Consciousness and moral responsibility
	Ms	Denise	Vigani	Graduate Center, CUNY	Moral Judgments and Identity-Based Motivation
	Associate Professor	John	Thornton	Griffith University and the University of Queensland	The Phenomenological Negation of the Causal Closure of the Physical
	Dr	Dan	Marshall	HKU	Nominalism and Modal Comparitives
	Mr	Aurélien	Tonneau	IHPST, Panthéon-Sorbonne University	Metaphysical Explanation and Scientifics Laws
	Mr	Nicholas	Best	Indiana University	Incommensurability at the level of theory of reference: An example from the history of chemistry
	Prof.	Chung-I	Lin	Institute of Humanities in Medicine, Taipei Medical University	Fine-grained argument and conceptualism
	Dr.	Chris	Bessemans	Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)	Moral conflicts and moral awareness
	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.	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	Mohammad Mehdi	Naderi	Islamic Azad University, Azadshahr Branch	Introduction to the objectivity and nature of Farabi,s political philosophy
	Dr.	Tudor	Baetu	Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research	A multilevel approach to understanding species
	Dr	Jack	Reynolds	La Trobe	Phenomenology and Virtue Ethics: Complementary Anti-theoretical Ethical Trajectories?
	Mr.	Azam	Golam	La Trobe University	Tolerance Based Multiculturalism in South Asia: The Case of India
	Mr	Lachlan	Doughney	La Trobe University	The folk psychology of attention
	Mr	Nikolai	Alksnis	La Trobe University	The Limits of Affordances
	Mr	Paul	Barry	La Trobe University	Making Sense of Singer: Utilitarianism, Equality and Racism
	Mr	Ricky	Sebold	La Trobe University	Metaphysical Realism and the Varieties of Subject-World Correlations in Phenomenology
	Mr	Andrea	Marcelli	La Trobe University	Cooperation model and linguistic practices: a comparative view
	Mr	Ross	Pain	La Trobe University	Thing, Event, Metrical Discourse and Special Relativity: Making Sense of Sellars’ Time and the World Order
	Mr	William	Hebblewhite	Latrobe University	The Internet and The Problem of Anonymity
	Ms	Emma	Fox	Latrobe University	The problem with pain asymbolia
	Dr	John	Howes	Learningguild	Plato’s questions: what is aretē, and is it something taught?
	Dr.	Glenn	Carruthers	Macquarie University	Making sense of spousal revenge filicide: a disordered person perception hypothesis
	Mr	Mirko	Farina	Macquarie University	Transforming the Enculturated Mind:Sensory Substitution and Complementarity
	Professor	Peter	Menzies	Macquarie University	The Causal Closure Argument is No Threat to Non-Reductive Physicalism
	Prof	Jeanette	Kennett	Macquarie University	Addiction: Choice or Disease? How voluntary is voluntary behaviour in addiction
	Mr	Doug	McConnell	Macquarie University	Ainslie's account of agency and addiction: A critique
	Dr	Paul	Formosa	Macquarie University	Dignity and Respect: Understanding Kant’s Formula of Humanity
	Mr	Andrew	Montin	Macquarie University	Recognition and Agreement in the Learning of Language Games
	Dr	Robert	Sinnerbrink	Macquarie University	Cinematic Philosophy Redux: A Response to Thomas Wartenberg
	Mr	Andrew	Dunstall	Macquarie University	A new philosophy of history?
	Ms	Anke	Snoek	Macquarie University	Addiction and Diachronic Agency: integrating theoretical and empirical approaches
	Mr	Christopher	McCarroll	Macquarie University	Point of View in Autobiographical Memory and the Self
	Mr.	Will	Newsome	Macquarie University	Cultural and neural complementarity in the organization of cognition
	Prof	John	Sutton	Macquarie University	What is it like to bat?
	Dr	Katrina	Hutchison	Macquarie University	Sages and cranks: the difficulty of identifying 'first rate' philosophers
	Dr.	Richard	Menary	Macquarie University	Neural Plasticity and Cognitive Niches
	Mr	Neil	McDonnell	Macquarie University and University of Glasgow	Contrast and Fragility in Causation
	Mr.	D.M.	Gray	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Living to See Another Day
	Dr	Suzy	Killmister	Massey University	Moral Responsibility and Personal Autonomy
	Dr	Adriane	Rini	Massey University	The Well Proportioned Syllogism
	Ms	Stephanie	Lewis	MCM LLC	Where (in Logical space) is God
	Ms	Jennifer	Carr	MIT	Subjective 'Ought'
	Dr	Joshua	May	Monash University	Does Disgust Influence Moral Judgment?
	Ms	Elizabeth	Sund	Monash University	Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s Theory of Moral Obligation: A Lockean Bridge Between Hutcheson and Clarke
	Mr	Phillip	Krohn	Monash University	Obligations to Future Persons
	Dr	Toby	Handfield	Monash University	The ethics of extinction
	Dr.	Andy	Lamey	Monash University	Ecosystems as Spontaneous Orders
	Mr	Brenton	Welford	Monash University	Suspicious properties and the tensed theories of time
	Mr	David	Kalkman	Monash Unviersity	The Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR): Evolutionary Debunking of Religion
	Dr.	Katia	Vavova	Mount Holyoke College	A Dilemma for the Darwinian Debunker
	Prof.	Andres	Luco	Nanyang Technological University	Tracing the Moral Arc: Moral Properties in a Functionalist Theory of Social Change
	Asst. Prof.	Teru	Miyake	Nanyang Technological University	Confirmation and Exploration in Newton's Principia
	Dr	Lina	Jansson	Nanyang Technological University	Asymmetrical ontological dependence: Essence, Socrates, and the singleton set containing Socrates
	Prof.	Ching	Keng	National Chengchi Univeristy, Taipei, Taiwan	Two Stages of “Reality”—On the debate between Garfield and Gold about the Trisvabhāvanirdeśa
	Dr	Linton	Wang	National Chung Cheng University	The Contextualist* Anguish at Epistemic Possibilities
	Prof.	Fei-Ting	Chen	National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan	A Hylomorphic Proposal of an Aristotelian Event
	Dr	Ben	Blumson	National University of Singapore	Properties and Probabilities
	Dr.	John	Lamont	none	The demise of the Eleatic Principle
	Miss	Amanda	Montgomery	NYU	Can Theoretical Uncertainty Resurrect Pascal's Wager?
	Ms	Sandra	Field	Princeton University	Two errors of absolutism: Hobbes and Spinoza
	Prof	Michael	Smith	Princeton University	Moral Judgements, Judgements About Reasons, and Motivations
	Mr	Kim	Shaw-Williams	R.S.S.S, ANU	The Triggering Track-ways Theory
	Prof.	Dongping	Fan	School of Public Administration, South China Normal University\Guangzhou China	Emergence and Irreducibility of Scientific Knowledge
	Mr	Benjamin	Miller	Stanford University	Justifying the Civic Virtue