Programme




Tuesday, 2nd December

Erskine 445
Erskine 446
Erskine 244
Erskine 241
9:00 – 10:30
Long Papers
Greg Dawes
University of Otago
‘Religion and Science: A Case of Differing Epistemic Norms’
Christine Swanton
University of Auckland
‘Nietzsche, Depth Psychology, and the Objectivity of Ethics’
Vladimir Krstić
University of Auckland
‘Fallis was almost right about lying’

10:30 – 11:00
Morning Tea (Erskine 447)
11:00 – 12:30
Long Papers
Antony Eagle
University of Adelaide
‘The Epistemic Significance of Agreement’
Tim Dare
University of Auckland
‘Predictive Risk Modeling and Child Maltreatment: Ethical Challenges’
Graham Oddie
University of Colorado
‘Fitting attitudes and solitary goods’
Ben Blumson
National University of Singapore
‘Impossible Fiction’
12:30 – 2:00
Lunch
2:00 – 3:00
Short Papers
Matthew Macdonald
Victoria University
‘Epistemic Circularity’
Fred Kroon
University of Auckland
‘Where for Causal Descriptivism’
John Matthewson
Massey University
‘When less mechanistic information produces better mechanistic explanations’
Fox Swindells
University of Canterbury
‘A Capabilities Solution to Enhancement Regulation’
3:05 – 4:05
Short Papers

Paul Silva
Monash University
‘How Etiological Information Yields Defeat’
Nicholas Munn
University of Waikato
‘Prisoners, voting.’
Sam Baron & Jonathan Tallant
University of Western Australia
‘On Razor Revision’
Patrick Girard
University of Auckland
‘Going to the cricket at the end of the world’
4:05 – 4:30
Afternoon Tea (Erskine 447)
4:30 – 5:30
Short Papers
Guillermo Badia
University of Otago
‘Paraconsistent Metaphysics’
Katie Hamilton
Victoria University
‘What is Philosophical Expertise?’
Sidney Diamante
University of Auckland
‘At arm's length: The octopus nervous system and the unity of consciousness’
Kasper Christensen
Victoria University
‘On Logical  Necessity in Kripke Semantics’
7:30 – 9:30
Wine Tasting          Room 612, Karl Popper Building





Wednesday, 3rd December
Erskine 445
Erskine 446
Erskine 244
Erskine 240
9:00 – 10:30
Long Papers
John Bishop & Ken Perszyk
University of Auckland
Victoria University
‘A Euteleological Conception of Divinity’
Ramon Das
Victoria University
‘Evolutionary debunking arguments and partners in guilt’
Doug Campbell
University of Canterbury
‘Is a de-extinct mammoth a genuine mammoth, or just a forgery?’
Martin Prior
University of London
‘From Polish Notation to Tense Logic: Logic and Language’
10:30 – 11:00
Morning Tea (Erskine 447)
11:00 – 12:30
Long Papers
Paul Redding
University of Sydney
‘Hegel’s weakly inferentialist, pluralist logic’
Tim Oakley
La Trobe University
‘How to release yourself from an obligation’
Kim Shaw-Williams
Australian National University
‘Towards A New View of Human Origins: The Bipedal Wetlands Foraging Hypothesis’
Charles Pigden
University of Otago
‘No-Ought-From-Is and Prior’s Paradox after Fifty-four years’
12:30 – 2:00
12:30-12:45 Lunch
12:45-2:00 NZAP meeting          A3 Lecture Theatre
2:00 – 3:00
Short Papers
Tracey Bowell
University of Waikato
‘On Engaging with Others: A Wittgensteinian Approach to (some) Problems with Deeply Held Beliefs’
Jenny McMahon
University of Adelaide
‘A Cinematic Realism’
James Maclaurin
University of Otago
‘Is Biodiversity a Natural Kind?’

Adriane Rini
Massey University
‘The Logic of ‘Logic and the Basis of Ethics’’
3:05 – 4:05
Short Papers
Manuel Lechthaler
University of Otago
‘Exclusion Arguments for Eliminativists’

Duncan Martin
Victoria University
‘Concrete action guidance for virtue oriented ethical theories: A critique of Sandler's solution’
Lachlan Walmsley
Macquarie University
‘The Origin of Decoupled Representation’
Anton Killin
Victoria University
‘Prior's revolutionary theory of nations’
4:05 – 4:30
Afternoon Tea (Erskine 447)
4:30 – 5:30
Short Papers
Jerome Odebunmi
University of Waikato
‘The Consequence of Dewey's Naturalism for Epistemology’
Matteo Ravasio
University of Auckland
‘Smashing a Perfectly Good Guitar – Why we don't like to see musical instruments being misused and destroyed’

Cory Johnson
University of Otago
‘Prior’s Leibnizian Logic E’
5:30 – 7:00
Women in Philosophy gathering          North Lounge, University of Canterbury Staff Club




Thursday, 4th December
Erskine 445
Erskine 446
Erskine 244
Erskine 240
9:00 – 10:00
Short Papers
Cathy Legg
Waikato University
‘Idealism Operationalized: Charles Peirce's Theory of Perception’
Alex Miller
University of Otago
‘Morality Without Moral Facts?’
Justin Bruner
ANU
‘Indices are strategically complex’
Graham Oddie
University of Colorado
‘Autonomy, entanglement and Prior’s gem’
10:00 – 10:30
Morning Tea (Erskine 447)
10:30 – 12:00
Long Papers
 Ladislav Koreň
University of Hradec Králové
‘Rationality of norm-driven choice’
John Thrasher
Monash University
‘Stability and the Price of Compliance’
Kim Sterelny
Australian National University
‘Farewell to Content’
Charles Pigden
University of Otago
‘NOFI and Non-Cognitivism: the History of a Mistake’
12:00 – 1:30
Lunch
1:30 – 2:30
Short Papers
Michael Gilchrist
Victoria University
‘Reflections on Deflationary Metaontology’
Nicholas Smith
University of Auckland
‘Motives and Right Action’
Christopher Lean
ANU
‘Hierarchy in Ecology and its implications for Biodiversity’
Hartley Slater
University of Western Australia
‘Prior’s Anti-Platonism’
2:35 – 3:35
Short Papers
Cei Maslen
Victoria University
‘Causation, Absences and the Prince of Wales’
Vanessa Scholes
Open Polytechnic /Kuratini Tuwhera
‘Stereotypes and discrimination’

Koji Tanaka
University of Auckland
‘Tonking a Modern Conception of Logic’
3:35 – 4:00
Afternoon Tea (Erskine 447)
4:00 – 5:30
Plenary
A.N. Prior Plenary
Max Cresswell
I am a Symbols Man: A.N. Prior And Ordinary Language Philosophy
A3 Lecture Theatre
6:00 – 10:00
A.N. Prior 100th Birthday Celebration Conference Dinner
6:00 Drinks 6:30 Dinner 10:00 Bar Closes
Bentleys, off Ilam Road






Friday, 5th December
Erskine 445
Erskine 446
Erskine 244
Erskine 240
9:00 – 10:30
Long Papers
John Bishop
University of Auckland
‘The Intrinsic Dispositionalist Account of the Ability to Act’
Sean Welsh
University of Canterbury
‘The Moral Architecture of a Service Robot: Moral Forces, Value Circuits and Patient Necessity’
Daniel Wilson
University of Auckland
‘Fine Art’s Esteem and the Buck Passing Theory of Value’
Sarah-Jane Dempsey &
John Bigelow
Monash University
‘Prior to Relativity’
10:30 – 11:00
Morning Tea (Erskine 447)
11:00 – 12:30
Long Papers
Roderic Girle
University of Auckland
‘Robinson Crusoe and the Epistemologists’
Glen Pettigrove
University of Auckland
‘Re-Conceiving Character: The Social Ontology of Humean Virtue’
Philip Catton
University of Canterbury
‘Philosopher, Tohunga, Engineer’
Mike Grimshaw
University of Canterbury
‘’’I am not cut out for the life of the regular ministry’’ A.N. Prior and the theology as illuminating illusion’
12:30 – 2:00
Lunch
2:00 – 3:00
Short Papers
Zach Weber, et al.
University of Otago
‘What is in inconsistent truth table?
Denis Robinson
University of Auckland
‘Available Options: ingenuity, imagination, and skill as handmaidens of rationality’
Jay Sloss & Richard Tweedie
Rangi Ruru Girls School
Hagley Community College
‘Philosophy in Secondary Schools: What we do and what’s missing’

3:00 – 3:30
Afternoon Tea (Erskine 447)
3:30 – 4:30
Short Papers
Marinus Ferreira
University of Auckland
‘How Many Conventions of Language are There?
Joshua Black
University of Sheffield
‘Peirce and Sellars on the Problem of Universals’
Zhuo-Ran Deng
University of Canterbury
‘The Inconceivable Popularity of Conceivability Arguments’

4:30 – 7:30
Staff Club
Drinks and fast food type meals available for purchase