WILLIAM A. BAUER
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​Associate Teaching Professor in Philosophy at North Carolina State University  (2010-present)

Research interests: metaphysics of science (causal powers, dispositions, physical modality), ethical and social 
implications of AI

Teaching interests: applied ethics (AI ethics, bioethics, research ethics), early modern philosophy, logic, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science 

Member of the AI in Society Group, North Carolina State University

Co-editor, Embedding AI in Society Special Issue of AI & Society

Connect with me on academia.edu, Google Scholar, and 
PhilPeople

​Book: Causal Powers and the Intentionality Continuum 
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(Cambridge University Press, October 2022) (Amazon page)

Publications

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Vehicles and the Basic Structure of Society
   V. Dubljevic and W. A. Bauer. Autonomous Vehicle Ethics: The Trolley Problem and 
   Beyond
(2022). R. Jenkins, D. Černý, and T. Hribek (Eds.) Oxford University Press. 

Moral and social ramifications of autonomous vehicles: a qualitative study of the perceptions of professional drivers
   V. Dubljevic, S. Douglas, J. Milojevich, N. Ajmeri, W. A. Bauer, G. List, M. P. Singh. Behaviour &
   Information Technology 
(2022). DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2022.2070078
Toward a rational and ethical sociotechnical system of autonomous vehicles: A novel application of multi-criteria decision analysis 

   V. Dubljevic, G. List, J. Milojevich, N. Ajmeri, W. A. Bauer, M. P. Singh, E. Bardaka, T. A.
   Birkland, C. H. W. Edwards, R. C. Mayer, I. Muntean, T. M. Powers, H. A. Rakha, V. A. Ricks,
   M. Shoaib Samandar. PLOS ONE (2021). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256224

Expanding Nallur's Landscape of Machine Implemented Ethics [Springer SharedIt]
   W. A. Bauer. Science and Engineering Ethics (2020) DOI: 1
0.1007/s11948-020-00237-x
AI Assistants and the Paradox of Internal Automaticity
   W. A. Bauer and V. Dubljević. Neuroethics (2019) DOI: 
10.1007/s12152-019-09423-6
Virtuous vs. Utilitarian Artificial Moral Agents [Springer SharedIt]
   W. A. Bauer. AI & Society 35: 263-271 (2018) DOI:
10.1007/s00146-018-0871-3
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Causal Powers & Dispositions
Powers and the Pantheistic Problem of Unity [Springer SharedIt]
  
W. A. Bauer. Sophia 58: 563-580 (2018) DOI: 10.1007/s11841-018-0654-9
Physical Intentionality, Extrinsicness, and the Direction of Causation [Springer SharedIt]
   W. A. Bauer. Acta Analytica, 31(4): 397-417 (2016) DOI: 10.1007/s12136-016-0283-2

Dispositional Essentialism and the Nature of Powerful Properties [open access]
    W. A. Bauer. 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*]
   W. A. Bauer. Properties, Powers and Structures: Issues in the Metaphysics of Realism (2012) A.
   Bird, B. Ellis, and H
. Sankey (Eds.), Routledge
An Argument for the Extrinsic Grounding of Mass [links to Springer]
    W. A. Bauer. 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
    G. Comstock and W. A. Bauer. [Springer SharedIt]
   
Acta Analytica, 33(4): 431-451 (2018) DOI: 10.1007/s12136-018-0340-0
Against Branching Identity [Springer SharedIt]
    W. A. Bauer. Philosophia, 45(4): 1709-1719 (2017) DOI: 10.1007/s11406-017-9870-8


Short Pieces & Reviews
Why Science Needs Philosophy

   W. A. Bauer. Life as a Human (May 17, 2015)
Scientific Reasoning Can Be Circular [PDF*] 
   W. A. Bauer. The Reasoner, 8(1): 4-5 (2014)

Review of The Triple Helix: The Soul of Bioethics by Lisa Bellantoni [open access]
   W. A. Bauer. Metapsychology Online Reviews 17(20) (2013)
Attributing Knowledge of the Virtues of Contextualism [PDF*]
   W. A. Bauer. 
The Reasoner, 2(8): 6-7 (2008)

Dissertation
The Ontology of Pure Dispositions [Digital Commons] over 1,400 downloads
W. A. Bauer. 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
Biomedical Ethics (online)
​Research and Writing in Ethics (corequisite: Biomedical Ethics)

Thinking Logically (online)

Introduction to Philosophy​
Introduction to Research Ethics (graduate)
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Philosophy Resources
Critical Thinking Web
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
PhilPapers
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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
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