William A. Bauer

William A. Bauer (PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) is a philosophy teacher and researcher focused primarily on applied ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of science. He currently serves as an Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University.

His courses cover an array of philosophical topics, including bioethics, logic, the nature of reality, personal identity, and more. He won the 2020 Outstanding Lecturer Award from the College of Humanities and Social Science.

He authored the book Causal Powers and the Intentionality Continuum (Cambridge University Press, 2022), an argument for explaining natural necessity using an ontology of powers. He has published peer-reviewed articles in journals such as AI & Society, Erkenntnis, and Science and Engineering Ethics, and co-edited (alongside Dr. Anna Marmodoro) Artificial Dispositions: Investigating Ethical and Metaphysical Issues (Bloomsbury Academic 2024).

Serving in the U.S. Army for 6 and 1/2 years as a medical operations and administrative officer, he led teams in field and hospital settings.