John Basl

Biographic Data

ID372951
NAMEJohn Basl
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEBasl
SIGNATUREBASL J
AFFILIATIONSNortheastern University
ORCID0000-0003-2056-4201
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Responsibility and Accountability in an Algorithmic Society

    Open AccessWilfrid Fleisher, Beba Cibralic et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy & Technology2025

    This paper articulates the importance of distinguishing responsibility practices from accountability frameworks for the design, development, and deployment of algorithmic decision-making systems. Accountability frameworks are organized social systems associated with particular groups or institutions that employ rule-governed practices to incentivize or sanction specific behaviors. In contrast, responsibility practices concern our everyday notions…

  • What we owe to decision-subjects

    Open AccessDavid Gray Grant, Jeff Behrends et al.ARTICLEPhilosophical Studies2025Cited by: 2References: 61

    The ongoing explosion of interest in artificial intelligence is fueled in part by recently developed techniques in machine learning. Those techniques allow automated systems to process huge amounts of data, utilizing mathematical methods that depart from traditional statistical approaches, and resulting in impressive advancements in our ability to make predictions and uncover correlations across a host of interesting domains. But as is now widely…

  • The effectiveness of embedded values analysis modules in Computer Science education

    Open AccessMatthew Kopec, Meica Magnani et al.ARTICLEBig Data & Society2023

    Embedding ethics modules within computer science courses has become a popular response to the growing recognition that computer science programs need to better equip their students to navigate the ethical dimensions of computing technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics. However, the popularity of this approach has outpaced the evidence of its positive outcomes. To help close that gap, this empirical s…

  • The Death of the Ethic of Life

    John BaslBOOKDeath of the Ethic of Life2019

    According to the ethic of life, all living organisms are of special moral importance. Living things, unlike simple artifacts or biological collectives, are not mere things whose value is entirely instrumental. This book articulates why the ethic is immune to most of the standard criticisms raised against it, but also why such an ethic is untenable, why the domain of moral concern does not extend to all living things; it argues for an old conclusi…

  • Death of the Ethic of Life

    John BaslBOOKDeath of the Ethic of Life2019

  • A trilemma for teleological individualism

    Open AccessJohn BaslARTICLESynthese2017Cited by: 3References: 44

  • Teleological organisation

    Open AccessSune Holm, John BaslARTICLESynthese2017

  • Machines as Moral Patients We Shouldn’t Care About (Yet)

    Open AccessJohn BaslARTICLEPhilosophy & Technology2014

  • The good of non-sentient entities

    Open AccessJohn Basl, Ronald SandlerARTICLEStudies in History and Philosophy…2013Cited by: 8References: 1

  • Nothing Good Will Come from Giving Up on Aetiological Accounts of Teleology

    Open AccessJohn BaslARTICLEPhilosophy & Technology2012

  • Restitutive Restoration

    John BaslARTICLEEnvironmental Ethics2010Cited by: 4

    Our environmental wrongdoings result in a moral debt that requires restitution.One component of restitution is reparative and another is remediative.The remediative component requires that we remediate our characters in ways that alter or eliminate the character traits that tend to lead, in their expression, to environmental wrongdoing.This paper offers an account of restitutive restoration, a way of engaging in ecological restoration that helps …