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