Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference 2012 Hosted by the Philosophy Program, University of Wollongong The Conference is taking place in Bld 67 (The McKinnon Building) Acknowledgment We would like to acknowledge the Dharawal people, who are the traditional custodians of the land on which the University of Wollongong stands. Organizing Committee Patrick McGivern (Program Convenor) David Neil Keith Horton David Simpson Sarah Sorial Administrative Assistant Jane Lymer Thanks The Committee would like to thank the Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong, for seed funding and administrative support, and the student volunteers who have assisted in the running of the conference. The information in this booklet can be downloaded from the conference website (http://www.aap-conferences.org.au/). Please consult the website for late changes. AAP 2012 Conference Schedule Sunday, July 1st 2pm Registration opens. Coffee and tea will be served in the foyer of building 67. 5pm Opening session, room 107 Welcome to Country Welcome to Delegates from Professor Paul Wellings, Vice Chancellor of the University of Wollongong AAP Presidential Address: Professor Peter Anstey (Otago), Locke on the Nature of Mind 7pm Reception for all delegates, foyer of building 67. Monday, July 2nd Room 101 Room 102 Room 104 Room 203 Room 208 Room 209 Room 301 Room 302 Room 303 John Wilkins Stuart Brock, James Chase Alexander (Sydney/Melbou Cei Maslen, and Michael Vincent (U Tas) Sandgren Susan Pennings rne) and Malte Justin Ngai Claudio Mazzola Richard Corry (UQ) (ANU) and (ANU) Ebach (UNSW) (all VU (UQ) (U Tas) 9:00- Disagreement Alexandra Wellington) 9:55 Consensus, and Varlakov (UQ) Virtue Ethics and The role of In Defense of Powers Take the Coherence, and Methodological Experimental classification in A Puzzle About Discrete Time Field Social Contract Difference in Informative Psychology the natural Fictional Philosophy names sciences Characters PHIL BIO Ricky Sebold John Thornton Paul Barry (La Trobe) (Griffith) Nin Kirkham (La Trobe) Ross Pain Alex von Stein Daniel Stoljar (La Trobe) Paolo Santorio (UWA) David Wiens (Arizona) (ANU) Metaphysical (ANU) The 10:00- Making Sense of Thing, Event, Metrical (ANU) Realism and the Phenomenologic Transcending 10:55 Singer: Discourse and Special Fitness, Drift, Self-Intimation Varieties of Descriptions as al Negation of our Biology: The Utilitarianism, Relativity: Making Preserving Harm and Selection and Necessity Subject-World Sense of Sellars' Time Variables the Causal Appeal to Nature Equality and Correlations in and the World Order Closure of the in Virtue Ethics Racism Phenomenology Physical Morning Tea 11:30- 12:55 Keynote, Room 107: Galen Strawson, Real Naturalism Lunch PHIL BIO Weng Hong Michael Smith Hedda Hassel Alex Silk Nathan Sinclair Wylie Tang (Princeton) Peter Bowden (Oslo) (Michigan) (Sydney) Breckenridge (NU Singapore) NEW WORK IN (Sydney) (CSU) 2:00- Moral PHILOSOPHY Phenomenology Evidence- The master 2:55 Reliabilism and Judgements, OF BIOLOGY Ethics across of agency as Sensitivity in argument Theseus, Justified Judgements Pierrick Bourrat the disciplines experience of Weak Necessity against analytic Parthood, Degrees of About Reasons, (Sydney), Mark causation Deontic Modals truth Performance Colyvan Belief and Motivations (Sydney), Stephen Downes (Utah), Clare McCausland, Peter Godfrey- Wolfgang Denis Robinson Siobhan Chris Karen Bland Edward Elliott Smith (CUNY), Schwarz (Auckland) D.M. Gray O'Sullivan, and Bessemans (Adelaide) (ANU) Adam Hochman Garrett Cullity (ANU) (MIT) Scott Brenton (KU Leuven) 3:00- (Sydney), Emily (Adelaide) Constitution, (all Melbourne) The Fregeanism and 3:55 Parkes Worms First! In polysortal Living to See Moral conflicts Compatibility of the Referential (Pennsylvania) Reasons and Fit defense of objects, and Another Day A utilitarian and moral Pragmatism and Capacities of the diachronic counterfactuals argument awareness Pluralism Very Young rationality for engineers. against animal exploitation Afternoon Tea GRADUATE CAREER WORKSHOP Mark Colyvan ASSOCIATIONS 4:30- (Sydney), David HEADS 6:30 Chalmers MEETING (ANU/NYU), Michelle Montague (Oxford) Tuesday, July 3rd Room 101 Room 102 Room 104 Room 203 Room 208 Room 209 Room 301 Room 302 Room 303 FAPSA Karl Rollings Gregory Strom Holly Lawford- (Sydney) (Sydney) Smith Max Cresswell Shane Waugh Benjamin Miller (ANU) (VU Wellington) (Wollongong) OPENING OF Reconciling (Stanford) 9:00- Deviant Causal FAPSA motivational 9:55 Chains, De Re Benefiting from A Lockian Humility, Ignorance CONFERENCE judgment Justifying the Knowledge and Failures to Geometric and Inattention externalism with Civic Virtue Weakness of the Address Climate Demonstration moral Will Change inescapability Women in PHIL BIO FAPSA Philosophy Daniel Cohen 9:30 - 10:55 Mark Anthony Amanda Arnon Levy Kirsten Walsh and Wylie Laurance Dacela Montgomery Sarah Elizabeth Fiona Jenkins (Van Leer Ben Blumson Holmes (Otago) Breckenridge Splitter (De La Salle) (NYU) (ANU) Institute) (NU Singapore) (George Washington) 10:00- (both CSU) (HKIE) The 10:55 Are Modal Can Theoretical The Exceptionalism Singing the Post- Model Properties and Methodological Has Smith The Principle of Conditions Uncertainty Plane: Quantifying Discrimination Blues: Organisms Probabilities Cultural "Self-Love" at Role of Newton's solved the Moral Personal Worth Necessary for Resurrect Notes for a Critique aren't Models the International Level Hypotheses of Academic Problem? (PPW) Knowledge? Pascal's Wager? Meritocracy Morning Tea Women in PHIL BIO FAPSA Philosophy Neil Levy Stephen E. Goddard and S. Dodds Robert Wilson David Coady (both U Tas), Not Just a (Florey Ramon Das Hetherington William Harper Adrian Currie (Alberta) Daniel Nolan (U Tas) Pipeline Problem: Improving Neuroscience (VU Wellington) (UNSW) (UWO) Women's Participation in (ANU) (ANU) 11:30- Institutes) Collaborative Inquiry Philosophy in Australia / A. out of School: Rumour, 12:55 Rini (Massey), Why Did Humanitarian The Gettier Isaac Newton's Beyond Philosophy Boot Say It But Don't Conspiracy New Zealand Philosophy Consciousness Camp, or the Endless intervention and problem as an Scientific Departments Stop Hiring Tracecentrism Mean It Theory and and moral Summer?" non-ideal theory infallibilist Method Women Philosophers? Propaganda responsibility confusion Lunch PHIL BIO FAPSA Rohan Sud Christophe Michelle Rachael Boch Elizabeth Sund WORKSHOP (Michigan) Bouton Montague Di Stringer (Brigham Young) (Monash) WITH (Bordeaux) (Bristol) (Adelaide) 2:00- CHILDREN Imprecise Catharine Trotter Internalism, Cockburn's Theory of 2:55 FROM Decision Theory: The Emergence Content and Agency and the Externalism, and Moral Obligation: A WOLLONGONG A Game Lockean Bridge of Time (Kant, THE EVOLVED awareness of Open Future Epistemic APPRENTICE SCHOOL Theoretic Between Hutcheson Bergson and awareness Normativism and Clarke Kim Sterelny Exploration Modern Physics) (ANU), Stephen Women in Downes (Utah), FAPSA Philosophy Phil Gerrans Paul Formosa (Adelaide), John Erik Anderson Mara Bollard Dan Marshall (Macquarie) Katrina Hutchison Sutton (Drew) (Sydney) Daniel Singer Jennifer Carr REFLECTIONS (HKU) (Macquarie) (Macquarie) (Michigan) (MIT) 3:00- ON Dignity and Nature, Psychopathy, 3:55 Sages and cranks: the CHILDREN'S Nominalism and Respect: Cognition, and Autism and Modeling Peer Subjective difficulty of identifying 'first WORKSHOP Modal Understanding rate' philosophers Positive Questions of Disagreement 'Ought' Comparitives Kant's Formula Aesthetics Moral Agency of Humanity Afternoon Tea Women in PHIL BIO FAPSA Tristram Jack Reynolds Ian Hunt Philosophy McPherson (La Trobe) (Flinders) Doug McConnell Lachlan Richard Menary Janette Poulton (Virginia Justine McGill (Macquarie) Doughney Jonathan Simon (Macquarie) (FAPSA) Tech/Melbourne) Phenomenology (Melbourne) Marx and Rawls (La Trobe) (ANU) 4:30- and Virtue on the Justice of Ainslie's account 6:00 Neural Plasticity Workshop: p4c What is at stake Ethics: The Silencing of Capitalism and of agency and The folk "Consciousness" and Cognitive Training in debates Complementary Women the Market: A addiction: A psychology of Is Not Vague Niches Programs between Anti-theoretical Possible critique attention normative Ethical Synthesis? realists? Trajectories? Routledge/Taylor and Francis Reception Celebrating 90 Years of the AJP, 6pm, 67 Foyer Wednesday, July 4th Room 101 Room 102 Room 104 Room 203 Room 208 Room 209 Room 301 Room 302 Room 303 MC & LE !"#$"% Kevin Keith Anke Snoek (Macquarie) Rachel Janette Poulton (Sydney) Syano Musyimi Richard Hou Suzy Killmister Schneebaum (FAPSA) Anton Killin (Bristol) (NCCU, Taiwan) (Massey) Homology and Addiction and (Arizona) (VU Wellington) 9:00- Diachronic What does it Mechanism in The Eleatic Epistemic Moral 9:55 Agency: Introspection take to teach Fictionalism Developmental Principle and Possibility and Responsibility integrating without Philosophy to TRACKING, about musical Cognitive Absence Zhuang Zhou's and Personal theoretical and Phenomenal School COGNITION, works Science: The Causation Butterfly Dream Autonomy Case of empirical Consciousness Children? AND Attachment approaches KNOWLEDGE Theory Nicolas Bullot (Macquarie), MC & LE Jeanette !"#$"% Phil Gerrans Kennett (Macquarie), (Macquarie) Kristie Miller, Chung-I Lin Ben Cross Kim Shaw- Sondra Neil McDonnell Laurence Stephanie Lewis Sam Baron, and (Tapei Medical (Sydney) Williams (ANU) Bacharach and (Macquarie) Splitter Addiction: (MCM LLC) Raamy Majeed University) Isobel Cairns 10:00- (HKIE) Choice or (all