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Postgraduate Presentation Prize
Sponsored by Taylor and Francis.
Awarded for the best paper presented by a postgraduate student at our annual conference. Awarded to encourage postgraduates to present at the conference, and to recognise the philosophical contributions from excellent postgraduate students.
Information, Judging Criteria and Entries
2025 Shortlist
Magdalen Elmitt
Australian National University
Higher-order evidence and Bayesian orthodoxy
Scott Young
Macquarie University
From Measuring Moral Judges to Mapping Moral Scenarios
Corey McCabe
Australian National University
Making Punishment Sensitive to Deprivation
Maisie Belle Norton
Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Sperm are from Mars, Eggs are from Venus: Generic Cognition and the Reification of Sex Essentialism
2025 Postgraduate Presentation Prize Recipient
Conor Leisky
Australian National University
'Bad food and immoral tastes'
2025 Shortlist
Tommy Ness
University of Melbourne
'Demeriting Labels and the Reproduction of Social Hierarchy'
Corey McCabe
Australian National University
'The Exclusionary Power of Authoritative Commands'
Conor Leisky
Australian National University
'Bad food and immoral tastes'
Alexander Forbes
Monash University
'Distributing the Costs and Benefits of Children'
2024 Postgraduate Presentation Prize Recipient
Jeremy Strasser
Australian National University
'A view of induction from the standpoint of time-stationary stochastic processes'
2024 Commendation
Stephen Enciso
Charles Darwin University
'Can sovereignties 'co-exist'? The interpretive challenge in the Uluru Statement'
2024 Shortlist
Theodore Murray
Australian National University
'Balancing Blame's Epistemic Norm'
Bryson Ng
Nanyang Technological University
'Moral Progress and the Epistemic Vices of Corporations'
Stephen Enciso
Charles Darwin University
'Can sovereignties 'co-exist'? The interpretive challenge in the Uluru Statement'
Jeremy Strasser
Australian National University
'A view of induction from the standpoint of time-stationary stochastic processes'
2023 Postgraduate Presentation Prize Recipient
Shalom Chalson
Australian National University
'Discounting People for Reasons that Shouldn't Count'
2023 Shortlist
Jonathan Edwards
University of Queensland
'Solidarity: A Core Virtue of Humanitarianism?'
Corey McCabe
Australian National University
'Participatory Political Obligations'
2022 Postgraduate Presentation Prize Recipient
Nick Willis
Australian National University
'Innovating over gappy resources – blame and hermeneutical injustice'
2022 Shortlist
Meg McCamley
Deakin University
'Enactive Behaviour Analysis'
Raphael Morris
Australian National University
'Sealioning: A Discursive Autoimmune Disease'
Brandon Yip
Australian National University
'What is Moral Disgust?'
2021 Postgraduate Presentation Prize Recipient
Mitchell Barrington
Australian Catholic University
Ignoring the Improbable
2021 Shortlist
Riley Harris
University of Adelaide
Weak Comparability
Madeleine Shield
University of Queensland
Can we Force Someone to Feel Shame?
Brandon Yip
Australian National University
The Social-ideal Account of Shame
2019 Postgraduate Presentation Prize Recipients
Ross Pain & Szymon Bogacz - Australian National University
Analyticity and easy ontology
2019 Shortlist
Inês Hipólito
University of Wollongong
Perceiving and Cognising: Re-Drawing the Boundaries
Matthew Joseph
The University of Sydney
Duties and Privileges: Reconsidering States’ Rights of Exclusion
Adam Piovarchy
The University of Sydney
Hypocrisy, Standing to Blame and Normative Powers
2018 Postgraduate Presentation Prize Recipient
Heather Browning
Australian National University
The lion or the lungfish: making intersubjective welfare comparisons
2018 Shortlist
Kai Tanter & William Tuckwell
Monash / Melbourne
SCOREKEEPING TROLLS
Nathaniel Gan
University of Sydney
Breaking Ontological Stalemate
Lachlan Walmsley
Australian National University
Everything wrong with multi-model idealisation
2017 Postgraduate Presentation Prize Recipient
Hayden Wilkinson
Australian National University
Expending with expansionism
2017 Shortlist
Nick Brancazio
University of Wollongong
The Extensive Reach of Gender: Agency and Interaction
Vincent Le
Deakin University
Adam Piovarchy
University of Sydney
Responsibility and Obedience to Authority
Lachlan Walmsley
Australian National University
Minimally Mechanistic Explanation: Lessons from the true slime mould Physarum polycephalum
2016 Postgraduate Presentation Prize Recipient
Stephen Gadsby
Macquarie University
'Anorexia Nervosa and the Oversized Experience'
2016 Shortlist
Adam Piovarchy
University of Sydney
'Blaming the Excused: Reactive Attitudes and Causal Responsibility'
Lachlan Walmsley
Australian National University
'Please Explain – Radical Enactivism’s Explanatory Debt'
2015 Postgraduate Presentation Prize Recipient
Tristram Oliver-Skuse
University of Melbourne
'Anger Felt towards a Bin-Licking Dog'
2015 Shortlist
Ross Pain
La Trobe University
'A Metalinguistic Defence of Strong Deflationism'
Linus Huang
University of Sydney
'The Nativist Input Problem: Why Evolutionary Psychology Still Can't Explain Human Intelligence'
Millicent Churcher
University of Sydney
'Beyond Empathy: Adam Smith on the Sympathetic Imagination'
The AAP awards a monetary prize for the best paper presented by a postgraduate student at our annual conference. This prize is offered to encourage postgraduates to present at the conference, and to recognise the philosophical contributions from excellent Australasian postgraduate students.
Judging Criteria
Shortlisted candidates will be judged on both the written paper quality and the presentation skill displayed in presenting the paper to a conference audience, in particular the following;
Argument (internal quality/merit thereof).
Writing (overall clarity and coherence).
Novelty/originality.
Impact (significance in relation to debates in the field).
Overall presentation skills.
Eligibility
AAP Postgraduate members enrolled in a philosophy HDR program in an Australasian University (includes Australia, New Zealand and Singapore) who have registered for the conference and are presenting a paper are eligible to enter the AAP Postgraduate Presentation Prize and be involved in the Postgraduate Mentoring Scheme.
Applicants must submit a full paper, prepared for blind review, of between 3000-5000 words (incl. references)
In addition:
1. Applicants must be members of the AAP in good standing.
2. Applicants must be enrolled in an Australasian HDR philosophy program (PhD or MRes).
3. Applicants must not be previous winners of the AAP Postgraduate Presentation Prize.
4. The submitted paper must not be previously published.
5. Applicants cannot submit more than one paper in any given year.
6. All papers must conform to the word limit.
7. All papers must be properly prepared for blind review.
Students are eligible if their theses submission date falls after the closing date for submissions.
Applications:
Submission deadline: Thursday 30 April 2026, 8pm AEST
After the deadline, a judging panel will review all submissions and make a short-list of entries. Short-listed applicants will have their conference fees returned. Members of the judging panel will attend the presentations by the short-listed applicants. The winner will be chosen based on both the quality of the submitted paper and the quality of the conference presentation. The winning paper will be announced at the conference and receive a prize of $500, and the option of having their winning paper published online on the AAP website.
Short-listed applicants will be notified by Thursday 28 May 2026.
The AAP reserves the right not to award the prize in any given year if a suitable candidate is not nominated.
Full details on Policy & Procedure can be found HERE (Requires Member Login)
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