Automated Vehicles Symposium 2019

William Bauer
Teaching Assistant Professor of Philosophy
North Carolina State University


William A. Bauer, Ph.D., is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, where he was also the Honors Village Scholar in Residence for three years (2011-2014). He arrived at NC State in 2010 after completing a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he received a Chancellor’s Fellowship and the Hinman Fellowship. Prior to that, Bauer completed an M.A. in philosophy at Miami University (Ohio), served as a U.S. Army medical services officer, and studied biology and philosophy at Illinois Institute of Technology. His research areas include philosophy of science, metaphysics, cognitive science, and applied ethics (especially the socioethical dimensions of AI). Bauer has published articles in peer-reviewed journals on dispositional properties, the nature of mass, personal identity, animal metacognition, and artificial moral agents. In recent years, he's taught Introduction to Research Ethics, Biomedical Ethics, Thinking Logically, and Introduction to Philosophy.

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