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AUSTRALASIAN  ASSOCIATION  OF  PHILOSOPHY
Annual Conference
Conference Venue ! Experience Melbourne ! "Philosophy is not a theory but an activity." Melbourne Museum
"As long as it is allow’d, that reason has no influence on our passions and actions, ’tis in vain to pretend, that morality is discover’d only by a deduction of reason." "The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason." Mornington Pensinula Sponsor this square !
Sunday 6 ~ Friday 11, July 2008
Sponsor this square ! "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book." Studley Park Boathouse
La Trobe University Philosophy Department is pleased to host the
2008 conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy at
Storey Hall, an award-winning location in the heart of Melbourne City
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." "Were I but capable of interpreting to the world one half the great thoughts and noble feelings which are buried in her grave, I should be the medium of a greater benefit to it, than is ever likely to arise from anything that I can write, unprompted and unassisted by her all but unrivalled wisdom." Shrine Reserve "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all."
Melbourne, Australia's most European city, will play host to 3 philosophy conferences in July 2008.  The AAP conference will be preceded by the International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) conference, 30 June - 6 July, and followed by the fourth World Congress of Paraconsistency (WCP4) conference, 13 - 18 July.  To add to the excitement, the Australian Historical Association's Biennal Conference will be taking place alongside the AAP conference.
Sponsor this square! Yarra River Cruise "Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing." Thursday Dinner (Vegetarian & Vegan)
Melbourne City Maps Brain in a Vat Hot Air Balloon Tour "When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."
2008  LA TROBE  Philosophy Lecture Series (Abstracts & Other Details)
Prof. Sue Dodds, University of Wollongong (6 July)
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"I am not a Marxist."
Vulnerable Selves and Liberal Democracy
Prof. Frank Jackson, La Trobe University, Princeton University, ANU (7 July)
Meaning and the Getting of Information
Prof. Rosi Braidotti, University of Utrecht (7 July)
"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man." "Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect." "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."
The Postsecular Turn
Prof. Andrew Benjamin, Monash University (8 July)
Animal Presence
"Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar." Chef Milton in charge of our conference dinner ! "Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?" Monday Dinner (Japanese Teppanyaki)
Prof. Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (9 July)
A Moral Argument Against Moral Dilemmas
Prof. Richard Boyd, Cornell University (10 July)
Science and Social Constitution: Reality, Social Construction and the Social Epistemology of Science
Sponsor this square ! “Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum." Tuesday Dinner (Seafood Steamboat) Sponsor this square !
CALL  FOR  PAPERS
Titles and abstracts of papers must be submitted using our online registration form.
"Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!" Thursday Dinner (Gourmet French) "Death may be the greatest of all human blessings." Southgate Dining
TIMETABLE (Delegates please check)
Flinders Street Station "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." Venice on Yarra "If the assertion that there is a god is nonsensical, then the atheist's assertion that there is no god is equally nonsensical, since it is only a significant proposition that can be significantly contradicted."
SPECIAL  FEATURES
Australasian Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy  (5 - 6 July)
Free entry for AAP2008 delegates. Information
"Man differs from the animal only by a little; most men throw that little away." Sponsor this square ! Melbourne Sports Tours Friday Evening (walk on glass and see the world!)
Australasian Association for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science Annual Conference (8 - 9 July)
Free entry for AAP2008 delegates. Information
Analytic-Continental Philosophy Mini-conference (11 - 13 July)
Free entry for AAP2008 delegates. Information
Sponsor this square ! In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. Friday Afternoon (rock climbing 3 minutes away from the conference venue!) "The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground."
Gourmet Extras 
- Best Cuisine in Melbourne every night: Japanese, Cantonese, French, Thai, vegetarian, vegan, and more.
- Wine Tasting and Art Gallery day tour to Yarra Valley (12 July). Information
Daring Extras
“we think in words . . . and if not in words, then in mathematical or other symbols. Thus, let no one despise symbols!” Sponsor this square !
waterfront fire display "Reason in man is rather like God in the world."
For those who like challange. Information
12 Apostles & Fairy Penguin
"Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way." "I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." "Natural objects ... must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur."
Sponsor this square ! Sponsor this square ! "If kangaroos had no tails, they would topple over seems to me to mean something like this: in any possible state of affairs in which kangaroos have no tails, and which resembles our actual state of affairs as much as kangaroos having no tails permits it to, the kangaroos topple over." Saturday Tour (Yarra Valley)
REGISTRATION  &  PAYMENT
1.  Submit  Registration Form online by 25 May 2008.
2.  Use  Payment Form to pay by Credit Card online or by Cheque by  9 June 2008.
"The happiness of the drop is to die in the river." Monday Dinner (Vegetarian & Vegan) Ned Kelly Tour "What great advantages would philosophy give us over other men, if by studying it we could learn to govern our passions?"
Note :   A late payment fee of  AUD$30  will apply to payments made after 9 June 2008.
ACCOMMODATION Information
"The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.” Tuesday Lunch (Yum Cha)
POSTGRADUATE  SUBSIDY Information
OUR  SPONSORS
Academics Australia (platinum sponsorship)
Tram Restaurant Sponsor this square ! Melbourne Street Art Melbourne Central
HUSS, La Trobe University (gold sponsorship)
CONTACT
Email: aap2008@latrobe.edu.au
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"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy." Federation Square
Tel:   + 61 3 9479 1673                
Fax:  + 61 3 9479 3639
Address:  AAP2008 conference organizer, Philosophy Department, La Trobe University, VIC 3086, AUSTRALIA.     
"Cockatoo ergo sum"
Philosopher's Zone
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience." Australasian Association of Philosophy Homepage
MEDIA  CONTACT  (click here)
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