NZAP Schedule

Monday 7 December	Tuesday 8 December	Wednesday 9 December		Thursday 10 December
NZAP	NZAP	NZAP &UCAI		UCAI
	9:30 – 10:30 Paper 1	9:00 – 10:00 Paper 1		9:00 – 10:00 Paper 1
	10:30 – 11:00 Morning Tea (KP)	10:00 – 10:30 Morning Tea (KP & Rehua 005)		10:00 – 10:20 Morning Tea (Rehua 005)
	11:00 – 12:00 Paper 2	10:30 – 11:30 Paper 2		10:20 – 11:20 Paper 2
	12:00 – 1:00 Paper 3	11:30 – 12:30 Paper 3		11:20 – 12:20 Paper 3
	1:00 – 2:30 Lunch Women in Philosophy Lunch (Logie 401)	12:30 – 2:00 Lunch		12:20 – 1:20 Lunch
	2:30 – 3:30 Paper 4	2:00 – 3:00 Paper 4		1:20 – 2:20 Paper 4
3:00 – 5:30 Registration and Afternoon Tea (Karl Popper ground floor)	3:30 – 4:30 Paper 5	3:00 – 4:00 Paper 5		2:20 – 3:20 Paper 5
	4:30 – 5:00 Afternoon Tea (KP)	4:00 – 4:20 Afternoon Tea (KP & Rehua 005)		3:20 – 3:40 Afternoon Tea (Rehua 005)
		4:30 – 6:30 NZAP AGM (Locke 611)	4.20 – 5:20 UCAI Paper 6	3:40 – 4:40 Paper 6
			5.20 – 6:20 UCAI Paper 7	4:40 – 5:40 Paper 7
5:30 – 6:30 Opening Address Douglas Campbell (Canterbury) ‘Greenbeard theory, meet simulation theory’ (A4)	5:00 – 6:00 Paper 6	6:30 – 7:30 The Lovelace Lecture Diane Proudfoot (Canterbury) ‘Did Turing endorse the computational theory of mind?’ (A4)		6:00 – 7:00 Apéro (KP ground floor, BYOG)
7:00 – 10:00 Buffet and bar (Bentleys)	7:00 – 10:00 NZAP Conference Dinner (Riccarton House, inside and outside, bar from 6:30)	7:30 – 9:30 On the eve Ada Lovelace’s Birthday Party (KP ground floor, BYOG)

 

 

 

	TUESDAY 8 December
	NZAP	NZAP	NZAP
	KP 612	KP 413	KP 508
9:30 – 10:30	Tom Yates University of Auckland ‘Criminal liability: a dilemma for culpability internalists’	John Matthewson Massey University ‘Populations and machine-like decomposition’	Marco Grix Massey University ‘Liminality and its philosophical use(fulness)’
10:30 – 11:00	Morning Tea (KP ground floor)
11:00 – 12:00	Heather Dyke University of Otago ‘Moral obligations to future generations and the non-identity problem’	Max Cresswell Victoria University of Wellington ‘The battle for meaning: Ryle and Findlay vs Carnap’	M. Dentith University of Waikato/Beijing Normal University ‘Theorizing about conspiracy theories in the time of the novel coronavirus’
12:00 – 1:00	Dan Weijers & Nick Munn University of Waikato ‘Philosophy as a vehicle for significant learning experiences’	Michael Lebuffe University of Otago ‘The identity of indiscernibles and human nature in Spinoza’s Ethics’	Cei Maslen Victoria University of Wellington ‘Causal relativism’
1:00 – 2:30	Lunch & Women in Philosophy Lunch (WIP in Logie 413)
2:30 – 3:30	Benjamin David Young University of Waikato ‘What is the past?’	Aneta Markoska-Cubrinovska, Diane Proudfoot & Jack Copeland University of Canterbury ‘2020 The Innocenti Maria Bocheński Year—his impact on logic in NZ’	Vanessa Scholes ‘Ethical issues with involving kith and kin in tertiary education’
3:30 – 4:30	Alex Miller University of Otago ‘The role of rules in Wittgenstein’s later philosophy of language’	Zach Weber University of Otago ‘Mathematical pluralism and inconsistent arithmetic’	Asher Soryl University of Otago ‘The ‘Myth’ of Bambi: Idealized Nature and Wild Animal Suffering’
4:30 – 5:00	Afternoon Tea (KP ground floor)
5:00 – 6:00	Nicholas Agar Victoria University of Wellington ‘On utilitarian shit stirring’	Grant Tavinor Lincoln University ‘Virtual reality and pictorial seeing’	Charles Pigden University of Otago ‘Russell, causality and the solipsistic prison’
7:00 – 10:00	NZAP Conference Dinner (Riccarton House, inside and outside, bar from 6:30pm)

 

	WEDNESDAY 9 December
	NZAP	NZAP		UCAI
	KP 612	KP 413		REHUA 005
9:00 – 10:00	Jamee Elder Harvard University ‘Sherlock Holmes, smoking guns, and consilience: the epistemology of multi-messenger astrophysics’	Stephanie Gibbons University of Waikato ‘Mixing it up: the unity of propositions and objects in Plato and Davidson’		Giulio Valentino Dalla Riva University of Canterbury  ‘Quagmire & botheration for table & diagram: when numbers mean something more than just that’
10:00 – 10:30	Morning Tea (NZAP in KP ground floor, UCAI in Rehua 005)
10:30 – 11:30	Simon Keller Victoria University of Wellington ‘Beyond ideals of friendship’	Adriane Rini Massey University ‘Susan Stebbing, Alice Ambrose, Ruth Barcan Marcus: the role of women in symbolic logic’		Douglas Campbell University of Canterbury ‘Robots in Nozickland: a cautionary fairytale for our times’
11:30 – 12:30	Elisabeth Ellis, James Higham, & James Maclaurin University of Otago ‘Aviation exceptionalism in the age of Covid’	Justin Sytsma Victoria University of Wellington ‘Crossed wires: blaming artifacts for bad outcomes’		Simon Brown University of Canterbury ‘Building a computer that thinks like the brain’
12:30 – 2:00	Lunch
2:00 – 3:00	Gregory Dawes University of Otago ‘Towards a practice-based pluralist theory of cultural knowledge’	Jeremy Wyatt University of Waikato ‘The prospects of primitivism’		Zhao Fan & Jack Copeland University of Canterbury ‘The strange phenomenon of Turing denial’
3:00 – 4:00	Justine Kingsbury University of Waikato ‘Self-report: an unstable foundation for aesthetic theorizing’	Emma Maurice University of Canterbury ‘Insights and methodologies working with historical sources to identify Indigenous philosophical traditions’		James Maclaurin University of Otago ‘What is it like to be a bot?’
4:00 – 4:20	Afternoon Tea (NZAP in KP ground floor, UCAI in Rehua 005)
4:20 – 6:30	4:30 – 6:30 NZAP AGM (Locke 611)	4:30 – 6:30 NZAP AGM (Locke 611)		4:20 – 5:20 Tanja Mitrovic (Canterbury) ‘Using AI to support student engagement in video-based learning’
				5:20 – 6:20 Amy Fletcher (Canterbury) ‘Autonomous futures: positioning lethal autonomous weapons in the landscape of future warfare’
6:30 – 9:30	6:30 – 7:30 The Lovelace Lecture Diane Proudfoot (Canterbury)  ‘Did Turing endorse the computational theory of mind?’ (A4)		7:30 – 9:30 On the eve … Ada Lovelace’s Birthday Party (KP ground floor, BYOG)

 

	THURSDAY 10 December
	UCAI
	REHUA 005
9:00 – 10:00	Jonathan Pengelly Victoria University of Wellington ‘Philosophical prototyping’
10:00 – 10:20	Morning Tea (Rehua 005)
10:20 – 11:20	Tim Dare & Justine Kingsbury University of Auckland, University of Waikato ‘Explaining explainable AI’
11:20 – 12:20	Christoph Bartneck University of Canterbury ‘Same same but different’
12:20 – 1:20	Lunch
1:20 – 2:20	Justin Sytsma Victoria University of Wellington ‘How to make a conscious robot’
2:20 – 3:20	Ben Adams University of Canterbury ‘Toward contrastive explanations in GeoAI’
3:20 – 3:40	Afternoon Tea (Rehua 005)
3:40 – 4:40	James Atlas University of Canterbury ‘Protocol and sensor software development for fracture healing’ (Rehua 005)	Michael Grimshaw University of Canterbury ‘Not thinking like a young white western secular man—whose intelligence and what intelligence is being artificialized?’ (Rehua 002)
4:40 – 5:40	Randolph Grace University of Canterbury ‘Minds, brains, and the puzzle of implicit computation’
6:00 – 7:00	Apéro (KP ground floor, BYOG)