© © Photo of oil on canvas Kim Christensen 2000 AAP 2007 The University of New England, Armidale Sunday 1 - Friday 6 July 2007 “A cold week away from civilization” Abstracts CONTENTS KEYNOTE SPEAKERS __________________________________________________ 6 Professor William G. Lycan __________________________________________________ 6 Professor Eleonore Stump ____________________________________________________ 6 APPLIED ETHICS _____________________________________________________ 7 Fritz Allhoff _______________________________________________________________ 7 Paul Biegler ________________________________________________________________ 7 Russell Blackford ___________________________________________________________ 7 Ruth Bohill ________________________________________________________________ 8 Hugh Breakey ______________________________________________________________ 9 Damian Cox _______________________________________________________________ 9 Susan Dodds _______________________________________________________________ 9 Ron House ________________________________________________________________ 10 Adam La Caze ____________________________________________________________ 10 Holly Lawford-Smith _______________________________________________________ 11 Jane Lymer _______________________________________________________________ 11 Tony Lynch _______________________________________________________________ 12 Catriona Mackenzie ________________________________________________________ 12 Lesley McLean ____________________________________________________________ 13 Nicole Vincent _____________________________________________________________ 13 Jessica Wolfendale _________________________________________________________ 14 ASIAN PHILOSOPHY _________________________________________________ 15 Miri Albahari _____________________________________________________________ 15 Carl Hooper ______________________________________________________________ 15 Karyn Lai ________________________________________________________________ 16 Y.S. Lo and Andrew Brennan ________________________________________________ 16 Winnie Sung ______________________________________________________________ 17 Koji Tanaka ______________________________________________________________ 17 Peter Wong _______________________________________________________________ 18 KIERKEGAARD ______________________________________________________ 19 Annette Larrea ____________________________________________________________ 19 John Lippitt ______________________________________________________________ 19 1 Kinya Masugata ___________________________________________________________ 20 William McDonald _________________________________________________________ 21 Patrick Stokes _____________________________________________________________ 21 PHILOSOPHICAL PSYCHOLOGY _______________________________________ 23 Lauren Ashwell ___________________________________________________________ 23 Ben Blumson ______________________________________________________________ 23 David Bourget _____________________________________________________________ 24 Rachael Brown ____________________________________________________________ 24 Kate Devitt _______________________________________________________________ 25 John Doris ________________________________________________________________ 25 Paul Fearne _______________________________________________________________ 25 Nir Fresco ________________________________________________________________ 26 Ron Gallagher ____________________________________________________________ 27 Peter Godfrey-Smith _______________________________________________________ 27 Philip Goff ________________________________________________________________ 27 Paul Griffiths _____________________________________________________________ 28 John Heil _________________________________________________________________ 29 Uriah Kriegel _____________________________________________________________ 29 Farid Masrour ____________________________________________________________ 29 Micah McGee _____________________________________________________________ 30 Richard Menary ___________________________________________________________ 30 Alison Niedbalski __________________________________________________________ 31 T. Bradley Richards ________________________________________________________ 31 Kelly Roe _________________________________________________________________ 32 Richard Rummery _________________________________________________________ 32 Susanna Schellenberg ______________________________________________________ 33 Declan Smithies ___________________________________________________________ 34 Fiona Utley _______________________________________________________________ 34 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION _________________________________________ 35 John Bishop ______________________________________________________________ 35 Peter Forrest ______________________________________________________________ 35 Delton Hedges _____________________________________________________________ 36 John Lamont ______________________________________________________________ 36 Edward Moad _____________________________________________________________ 37 2 PHILOSOPHY OF PROBABILITY _______________________________________ 38 Rachael Briggs ____________________________________________________________ 38 Stephan Leuenberger _______________________________________________________ 38 Aidan Lyon _______________________________________________________________ 39 Nicholas Smith ____________________________________________________________ 39 Roy Sorensen _____________________________________________________________ 40 Weng Hong Tang __________________________________________________________ 40 Kazuhiro Watanbe _________________________________________________________ 41 REASON AND VALUE _________________________________________________ 42 Jens Bjerring and Aidan Lyon _______________________________________________ 42 Arcady Blinov _____________________________________________________________ 42 Andrew Brennan and Y.S. Lo ________________________________________________ 43 Mark Bryant Budolfson _____________________________________________________ 44 Garrett Cullity ____________________________________________________________ 44 Geoffrey Cupit ____________________________________________________________ 44 Tim Dare _________________________________________________________________ 45 Julia Driver _______________________________________________________________ 45 Bronwyn Finnigan _________________________________________________________ 46 Daniel Friedrich ___________________________________________________________ 46 Roger Hunt _______________________________________________________________ 46 Karen Jones ______________________________________________________________ 47 Stephen Kearns and Daniel Star ______________________________________________ 48 Jeanette Kennett ___________________________________________________________ 48 Andy Lamey ______________________________________________________________ 48 Vicki Macknight ___________________________________________________________ 49 Sarah Sorial & David Neil ___________________________________________________ 50 Nicholas Southwood ________________________________________________________ 50 Daniel Star _______________________________________________________________ 51 Shiu-Hwa Tsu _____________________________________________________________ 51 TRUTH AND BEAUTY _________________________________________________ 53 Catharine Abell ___________________________________________________________ 53 Derek Allan _______________________________________________________________ 53 David Armstrong __________________________________________________________ 54 Mary (Mabs) Buck _________________________________________________________ 54 3 Michael Devitt ____________________________________________________________ 55 Richard W. T. Hou _________________________________________________________ 55 Justine Kingsbury _________________________________________________________ 56 Raamy Majeed ____________________________________________________________ 56 Jenny McMahon ___________________________________________________________ 56 Peter Menzies _____________________________________________________________ 57 Michaelis Michael _________________________________________________________ 57 Greg O'Hair ______________________________________________________________ 58 Josh Parsons ______________________________________________________________ 58 WOMEN IN PHILOSOPHY _____________________________________________ 59 Marguerite La Caze ________________________________________________________ 59 OTHER(LOGIC) ______________________________________________________ 60 Fabrizio Cariani ___________________________________________________________ 60 Mark Colyvan _____________________________________________________________ 61 Drew Khlentzos ___________________________________________________________ 61 Graham Priest ____________________________________________________________ 61 Neil Thompson ____________________________________________________________ 61 Zach Weber ______________________________________________________________ 62 OTHER (METAPHYSICS) ______________________________________________ 63 Sun Demirli _______________________________________________________________ 63 Marco Fahmi _____________________________________________________________ 63 Sharon Ford ______________________________________________________________ 64