
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
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Book: Causal Powers and the Intentionality Continuum
(Cambridge University Press, October 2022) (Amazon page)
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
(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: 10.1007/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 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) 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 |
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