WILLIAM A. BAUER

Associate Teaching Professor in Philosophy at NC State University (2010-present)
Research: metaphysics of science (causal powers, dispositions, physical modality) and applied ethics (social and ethical implications of AI)
Teaching: Biomedical Ethics, Thinking Logically, Introduction to Philosophy, etc.
Member of the AI in Society Group at NC State
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Publications
Ethics of AI
Expanding Nallur's Landscape of Machine Implemented Ethics [Springer SharedIt]
Science and Engineering Ethics (online 2020) DOI: 10.1007/s11948-020-00237-x
AI Assistants and the Paradox of Internal Automaticity
   (w/Veljko Dubljević) Neuroethics (online 2019) DOI: 10.1007/s12152-019-09423-6
Virtuous vs. Utilitarian Artificial Moral Agents [Springer SharedIt]
   AI & Society 35: 263-271 (2020, online 2018) DOI: 10.1007/s00146-018-0871-3

Causal Powers and Dispositions
Powers and the Pantheistic Problem of Unity [Springer SharedIt]
   Sophia 58: 563-580 (2019, online 2018) DOI: 10.1007/s11841-018-0654-9
Physical Intentionality, Extrinsicness, and the Direction of Causation [Springer SharedIt]
    Acta Analytica, 31(4): 397-417 (2016) DOI: 10.1007/s12136-016-0283-2
Dispositional Essentialism and the Nature of Powerful Properties [open access]
    Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 5, No. 35: 1-19 (2013)
    DOI: 10.2478/disp-2013-0001
Four Theories of Pure Dispositions [links to self-archive PDF*]
    Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism, A. Bird, B. Ellis,
    & H. Sankey (Eds.), Routledge (2012)
An Argument for the Extrinsic Grounding of Mass [links to Springer]
    Erkenntnis, 74(1): 81-99 (2011) DOI: 10.1007/s10670-010-9269-4

Philosophy of Mind
Getting It Together: Psychological Unity and Deflationary Accounts of Animal Metacognition
    (w/Gary Comstock) [Springer SharedIt]
   Acta Analytica, 33(4): 431-451 (2018) DOI: 10.1007/s12136-018-0340-0
Against Branching Identity [Springer SharedIt]
    Philosophia, 45(4): 1709-1719 (2017) DOI: 10.1007/s11406-017-9870-8

Short Pieces and Reviews
Why Science Needs Philosophy
   Life as a Human (May 17, 2015)
Scientific Reasoning Can Be Circular [PDF*]
   The Reasoner, 8(1): 4-5 (2014)
Review of The Triple Helix: The Soul of Bioethics by Lisa Bellantoni [open access]
   Metapsychology Online Reviews 17(20) (2013)
Attributing Knowledge of the Virtues of Contextualism [PDF*]
The Reasoner, 2(8): 6-7 (2008)

Dissertation
The Ontology of Pure Dispositions [Digital Commons] over 1,200 downloads
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2010) (Adviser: Professor Jennifer McKitrick)

* These PDF files are author-created versions for self-archiving purposes, in accordance with the copyrights held by the publishers.

Recent Courses Taught
Bio-Medical Ethics (online)
Thinking Logically (online)
Introduction to Philosophy
Introduction to Research Ethics (graduate)

Philosophy Resources
Critical Thinking Web
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
PhilPapers
Rotman Institute of Philosophy
The Society for the Metaphysics of Science
Some Texts from Early Modern Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Society for the Philosophy of Information
Wireless Philosophy