Robert James M. Boyles

Associate Professor

Educational Background

Robert James M. Boyles is an associate professor of philosophy at De La Salle University. Among his research interests include artificial intelligence ethics, philosophy of artificial intelligence, and the like.

Research Interest

  • Artificial Intelligence Ethics
  • Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence

Selected Publications

  • Boyles, R. J. M. (2024). Can’t Bottom-up Artificial Moral Agents Make Moral Judgements?. Filosofija. Sociologija35(1), 14-22.
  • Boyles, R. J. M. (2022). Extending the Is-ought Problem to Top-down Artificial Moral Agents. Symposion9(2), 171-189.
  • Boyles, R. J. M., Dacela, M. A., Evangelista, T. R., & Rodriguez, J. C. (2022). COVID-19 and Singularity: Can the Philippines Survive Another Existential Threat?. Asia-Pacific Social Science Review22(2), 13.
  • Boyles, R. J. M. (2021). Hume’s law as another philosophical problem for autonomous weapons systems. Journal of Military Ethics20(2), 113-128.
  • Boyles, R. J. M., & Joaquin, J. J. (2020). Why friendly AIs won’t be that friendly: a friendly reply to Muehlhauser and Bostrom. AI & SOCIETY35(2), 505-507.
  • Boyles, R. J. M. (2018). A case for machine ethics in modeling human-level intelligent agents.
  • Boyles, R. J. M. (2017). Philosophical signposts for artificial moral agent frameworks.
  • Joaquin, J. J., & Boyles, R. J. M. (2017). Teaching Syllogistic Logic via a Retooled Venn Diagrammatical Technique. Teaching Philosophy40(2), 161-180.

 

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