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.	Jonathan	Simon	Australian National University	'Consciousness' Is Not Vague
	Mr	Ali	Abedi Renani	The Australian National University	A Deontological Interpretation and Improvement of Alasdair MacIntyre’s Moral Thought
	Dr.	Katia	Vavova	Mount Holyoke College	A Dilemma for the Darwinian Debunker
	Mr	Johann	Hariman	University of Sydney	A Ground-Theoretic Approach to the Fundamentality Question
	Prof.	Fei-Ting	Chen	National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan	A Hylomorphic Proposal of an Aristotelian Event
	Prof.	Max	Cresswell	Victoria University of Wellington	A Lockian Geometric Demonstration
	Dr.	Tudor	Baetu	Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research	A multilevel approach to understanding species
	Mr	Andrew	Dunstall	Macquarie University	A new philosophy of history?
	Dr.	Karola	Stotz	University of Sydney	A Nonreductive Explanatory Integration from Physics to Biology
	Dr	Stuart	Brock	Victoria University of Wellington	A Puzzle About Fictional Characters
	Mr	Bruce	Long	University of Sydney	A Trilemma Towards Physicalism About Information
	Ms	Clare	McCausland	University of Melbourne	A utilitarian argument against animal exploitation
	Ms	Anke	Snoek	Macquarie University	Addiction and Diachronic Agency: integrating theoretical and empirical approaches
	Prof	Jeanette	Kennett	Macquarie University	Addiction: Choice or Disease? How voluntary is voluntary behaviour in addiction
	Ms	Di	Stringer	University of Adelaide	Agency and the Open Future
	Mr	Doug	McConnell	Macquarie University	Ainslie's account of agency and addiction: A critique
	Mr	Matthew	Hammerton	Australian National University	Are all duties directed?
	Mr.	Mark Anthony	Dacela	De La Salle University - Manila, Philippines	Are Modal Conditions Necessary for Knowledge?
	Dr	Lina	Jansson	Nanyang Technological University	Asymmetrical ontological dependence: Essence, Socrates, and the singleton set containing Socrates
	Mr	Ben	Cross	University of Sydney	“Incentives, Inequality, and Virtue: A Case for Perfection”
	Dr.	Holly	Lawford-Smith	Australian National University	Benefiting from Failures to Address Climate Change
	Dr.	Sean	McKenna	ACU	Bespoke or Off The Rack: choosing roles that suit
	Mr	Adrian	Currie	Australia National University	Beyond Tracecentrism
	Dr	Miri	Albahari	University of Western Australia	Can consciousness observe its own impermanence in Buddhist meditation?
	Miss	Amanda	Montgomery	NYU	Can Theoretical Uncertainty Resurrect Pascal's Wager?
	Dr	Richard Paul	Hamilton	University of Notre Dame Australia	Capitalist Viciousness
	Ms	Elizabeth	Sund	Monash University	Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s Theory of Moral Obligation: A Lockean Bridge Between Hutcheson and Clarke
	Miss	Georgie	Statham	University of Western Australia	Causes as Deviations from the Normal
	Dr	Robert	Sinnerbrink	Macquarie University	Cinematic Philosophy Redux: A Response to Thomas Wartenberg
	Mr	Dejan	Simkovic	The University of Sydney	Clarke and Hume on moral phenomenology: an unlikely alliance against skepticism
	Asst. Prof.	Teru	Miyake	Nanyang Technological University	Confirmation and Exploration in Newton's Principia
	Mr	Adam	Hochman	The University of Sydney	Conflations of proximate and evolutionary explanation
	Associate Professor	Neil	Levy	Florey Neuroscience Institutes	Consciousness and moral responsibility
	Mr	Michael	Vincent	University of Queensland	Consensus, Coherence, and Social Contract
	Mr	Anson	Fehross	University of Sydney	Consequentialism With A Clue: A causal refutation of the Epistemic Problem
	Dr	Denis	Robinson	University of Auckland	Constitution, polysortal objects, and counterfactuals for engineers.
	Dr	Michelle	Montague	University of Bristol	Content and awareness of awareness
	Mr	Neil	McDonnell	Macquarie University and University of Glasgow	Contrast and Fragility in Causation
	Mr	Andrea	Marcelli	La Trobe University	Cooperation model and linguistic practices: a comparative view
	Mr.	Will	Newsome	Macquarie University	Cultural and neural complementarity in the organization of cognition
	Dr	Paolo	Santorio	ANU	Descriptions as Variables
	Dr	Gregory	Strom	University of Sydney	Deviant Causal Chains, De Re Knowledge and Weakness of the Will
	Dr	Paul	Formosa	Macquarie University	Dignity and Respect: Understanding Kant’s Formula of Humanity
	Dr	James	Chase	University of Tasmania	Disagreement and Methodological Difference in Philosophy
	Dr	Joshua	May	Monash University	Does Disgust Influence Moral Judgment?
	Dr	Joe	Mintoff	University of Newcastle	Does Moral Philosophy Corrupt its Students?
	Dr.	Andy	Lamey	Monash University	Ecosystems as Spontaneous Orders
	Dr	Patrick	Crogan	University of the West of England, Bristol	Editing Experience: Bernard Stiegler and Film Theory/History
	Prof.	Dongping	Fan	School of Public Administration, South China Normal University\Guangzhou China	Emergence and Irreducibility of Scientific Knowledge
	Ms	Elena	Walsh	University of Sydney	Emotions and Natural Kinds
	Dr.	Richard	Hou	Department of Philosophy, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan	Epistemic Possibility and Zhuang Zhou’s Butterfly Dream
	Dr.	Peter	Bowden	University of Sydney	Ethics across the disciplines
	Mr	Alex	Silk	University of Michigan	Evidence-Sensitivity in Weak Necessity Deontic Modals
	Ms	Jacqueline	Boaks	University of Western Australia	Evil Princes and noble Philosopher-Kings
	Mr	Pierrick	Bourrat	University of Sydney	Evolution by natural selection and the problem of heritability
	Mr	Paul	Boswell	University of Michigan	Fiction and Idea in Hume's Treatise
	Mr	Anton	Killin	Victoria University of Wellington	Fictionalism about musical works
	Ms	Rachael	Brown	Australian National University	Fighting Toads with Toads - Extending the Evolutionary Reach of Learning
	Dr.	David Macarthur	Macarthur	The University of Sydney	Film and the Question of Skepticism
	Prof.	Chung-I	Lin	Institute of Humanities in Medicine, Taipei Medical University	Fine-grained argument and conceptualism
	Mr	Alex	von Stein	University of Arizona	Fitness, Drift, and Selection
	Mr	Edward	Elliott	ANU	Fregeanism and the Referential Capacities of the Very Young
	Prof.	Jc	Beall	University of Connecticut & University of Otago	Gaps, Gluts, and Choices
	Dr	Daniel	Cohen	Charles Sturt University	Has Smith solved the Moral Problem?
	Mr.	Max	Bialek	University of Maryland, College Park	Hoefer's Justification of the Principal Principle
	Mr	Kevin	Keith	University of Sydney	Homology and Mechanism in Developmental Cognitive Science: The Case of Attachment Theory
	Dr	Jason	Grossman	Australian National University	How is it possible for a majority of scientists to be wrong about their own concepts?
	Ms	Alma	Barner	ANU	How to imagine a million bodies – A defense of the Simple View
	Dr	Ramon	Das	Victoria University of Wellington	Humanitarian intervention and non-ideal theory
	Dr	Shane	Waugh	University of Wollongong	Humility, Ignorance and Inattention
	Dr	Chris	Tucker	U of Auckland/William and Mary	If Dogmatists Have a Problem with Cognitive Penetration, You Do Too
	Mr.	Rohan	Sud	University of Michigan	Imprecise Decision Theory: A Game Theoretic Exploration
	Dr	Claudio	Mazzola	The University of Queensland	In Defense of Discrete Time
	Mr	Nicholas	Best	Indiana University	Incommensurability at the level of theory of reference: An example from the history of chemistry
	Mr	Alexander	Sandgren	ANU	Informative names
	Dr	Rachael	Boch	Brigham Young University	Internalism, Externalism, and Epistemic Normativism
	Dr	Mohammad Mehdi	Naderi	Islamic Azad University, Azadshahr Branch	Introduction to the objectivity and nature of Farabi,s political philosophy
	Ms.	Rachel	Schneebaum	University of Arizona/ANU	Introspection without Phenomenal Consciousness
	Dr	Morgan	Luck	Charles Sturt University	Is it wrong for Nagel to hope that there exists no God?
	Mr	Chris	Pollard	Deakin University	Is Merleau-Ponty’s position in 'Phenomenology of Perception' a new form of Transcendental Idealism?
	Dr.	William	Harper	University of Western Ontario	Isaac Newton's Scientific Method
	Ms	Louise	Richardson-Self	University of Sydney	Justifying Same-Sex Marriage: A Feminist Alliance with the Basic Right to Justification
	Mr	Benjamin	Miller	Stanford University	Justifying the Civic Virtue
	Mr.	Michael	Hughes	University of Connecticut	Lehrer’s Solution to the Preface and the Lottery: New Formal Problems
	Mr	Tama	Coutts	The University of Sydney	Lepore and Ludwig on the Principle of Charity
	Mr.	D.M.	Gray	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Living to See Another Day
	Dr	Hartley	Slater	University of Western Australia	Logic is not Mathematical
	Dr	Greg	Restall	University of Melbourne	Logical Constants and Focusing Disagreements
	Mr	Paul	Barry	La Trobe University	Making Sense of Singer: Utilitarianism, Equality and Racism
	Dr.	Glenn	Carruthers	Macquarie University	Making sense of spousal revenge filicide: a disordered person perception hypothesis
	Associate Professor	Ian	Hunt	Flinders University	Marx and Rawls on the Justice of Capitalism and the Market: A Possible Synthesis?
	Mr	Aurélien	Tonneau	IHPST, Panthéon-Sorbonne University	Metaphysical Explanation and Scientifics Laws
	Mr	Ricky	Sebold	La Trobe University	Metaphysical Realism and the Varieties of Subject-World Correlations in Phenomenology
	Dr	Arnon	Levy	Van Leer Institute	Model Organisms aren't Models
	Mr.	Daniel	Singer	University of Michigan	Modeling Peer Disagreement
	Dr.	Chris	Bessemans	Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)	Moral conflicts and moral awareness
	Dr	Ben	Fraser	Australian National University	Moral error theories and folk metaethics
	Prof	Michael	Smith	Princeton University	Moral Judgements, Judgements About Reasons, and Motivations
	Ms	Denise	Vigani	Graduate Center, CUNY	Moral Judgments and Identity-Based Motivation
	Dr	Suzy	Killmister	Massey University	Moral Responsibility and Personal Autonomy