I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy at De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. I also obtained my doctorate degree in philosophy from the same school. My research interests include artificial intelligence ethics, philosophy of artificial intelligence, and the like.
To contact me, kindly send an email at robert.boyles@dlsu.edu.ph.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
Boyles, R.J.M. (2025). Conjectures on the Possibility of Recasting Hume’s Guillotine for Hybrid-Designed Artificial Moral Agents. Philosophia, 26 (2), 195-212. DOI 10.46992/pijp.26.2.a.3
Boyles, R.J.M. (2024). Can’t Bottom-up Artificial Moral Agents Make Moral Judgements? Filosofija. Sociologija, 35 (1), 14-22. DOI 10.6001/fil-soc.2024.35.1.3
Boyles, R.J.M. (2022). Extending the Is-ought Problem to Top-down Artificial Moral Agents. Symposion, 9 (2), 171-189. DOI 10.5840/symposion20229213
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 Review, 22 (2), 181-195. DOI 10.59588/2350-8329.1428
Boyles, R.J.M. (2021). Hume’s Law as Another Philosophical Problem for Autonomous Weapons Systems. Journal of Military Ethics, 20 (2), 113-128. DOI 10.1080/15027570.2021.1987643
Boyles, R.J.M. & Joaquin, J.J. (2020). Why Friendly AIs won’t be that Friendly: A Friendly Reply to Muehlhauser and Bostrom. AI & Society, 35, 505-507. DOI 10.1007/s00146-019-00903-0
Boyles, R.J.M. (2018). A Case for Machine Ethics in Modeling Human-Level Intelligent Agents. Kritike, 12 (1), 182-200. DOI 10.25138/12.1.a9
Boyles, R.J.M. (2017). Philosophical Signposts for Artificial Moral Agent Frameworks. Suri, 6 (2), 92-109.
Joaquin, J.J. & Boyles, R.J.M. (2017). Teaching Syllogistic Logic via a Retooled Venn Diagrammatical Technique. Teaching Philosophy, 40 (2), 161-180. DOI 10.5840/teachphil201771767
Conference Proceedings
Boyles, R.J.M. (2012). Artificial Qualia, Intentional Systems and Machine Consciousness. In Proceedings of the Research@DLSU 2012: Science and Technology Conference, 110a-110c. ISSN 2012-3477.
Boyles, R.J.M. (2012). Artificial Qualia in Robotic Vision and Perception. In Proceedings of the Turing 2012: International Conference on Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, 199-200. ISBN 978-971-555-544-9. [abstract]
Chapters in a Book
Boyles, R.J.M. (forthcoming). The Singularity in the Less than 2,000 Words. In N. Mabaquiao, Jr. (ed.), AI Ethics Primer for Filipinos. Manila: PUP Publishing House, Inc.
Boyles, R.J.M. (2025). Rome Call for AI Ethics: Considerations for a Philippine Response. In L. Checketts & B.S.B. Chan (eds.), Social and Ethical Considerations of AI in East Asia and Beyond, 75-95. Cham: Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-77857-5_5
Boyles, R.J.M., Dacela, M.A., & Joaquin, J.J. (2016). Powers of the Mind. In E.M. Nuncio (ed.), Personal Development, 61-81. Mandaluyong: Anvil Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-971-27-3327-7.
Boyles, R.J.M., Dacela, M.A., Joaquin, J.J., & Lualhati, V.R. (2013). The Nature of Truth. In L.D. Garcia (ed.), Exploring the Philosophical Terrain, 38-50. Manila: C&E Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-971-996-819-1.
Boyles, R.J.M. (2011). The Enemy: A Thought Experiment on Patriarchies, Feminisms and Memes. In J. Peracullo & N.L. dela Cruz (eds.), Feminista: Gender, Race, and Class in the Philippines, 53-64. Manila: Anvil Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-971-27-2594-4.
Others
Mabaquiao, N.M., Jr., Sunga Oblefias, A.M., Mandane, O.A., Jr., Bartilet, J.L., Boyles, R.J.M., Viray, J.R.B., Elle, M.C., Jimenez, J.M., Jose, J.M.M., Suazo, R.S., Domingo, R.M., Tubola, O.D. & Dolovino, J.B.R. (2024). AI Ethics: A Guidebook. Manila: PUP Center for Philippine Studies. ISBN 978-621-8387-16-4.