philosophy

Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference

This year’s Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) conference will be hosted by the University of Wollongong on July 7-11, 2019.

The conference is designed to give professional philosophers and philosophy postgraduate students the opportunity to present and discuss papers in all areas of philosophy. Each year it attracts around 300 philosophers worldwide.

AAP 2019 welcomes papers in all areas of philosophy. In addition to regular streams on topics such as Epistemology, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, and Political Philosophy (among numerous others), we are organising the following Special Streams on more specific topics:

  • Assessing Practical Ethics
  • Bayesian Cognitive Science – Open Challenges and Future Directions
  • Combatting Gender Inequalities in Philosophy
  • Gender Balancing the Philosophy Curriculum
  • Minimal Cognition
  • Model-Based Explanation Across the Sciences
  • Multicultural Philosophy
  • Shared Intentionality and Social Minds

For more information, visit https://aap.org.au/conference2019

Conference: Understanding others through Narrative Practices

Narrative practices matter to how we understand ourselves and others. Clarifying how they do so – how they can help or hinder such understanding and what other factors are involved – is vital in our efforts promote peaceful relations with one another. Bearing this in mind, this workshop explores the following four main themes:

1. How do narrative practices instil knowledge and moral values in ways that a matter to how we understand ourselves and others?
2. How might socio-cultural practices matter and make difference to cognition?
3. How might getting better understanding of embodied and implicit attitudes help in our efforts to overcome differences and divisions between individuals and groups?
4. To what extend do narrative practices enable and limit our capacity to understanding ourselves and others?

Members of the local community will deliver the two opening sessions of the workshop. Other contributions will examine the conference themes from the perspective of academic philosophy, drawing on philosophy of mind and cognition; philosophy of psychology, philosophy of action, epistemology and ethics.

5th of April, 2019 – University of Wollongong, Australia