Publications
My research has generated over sixty technical and scholarly publications. These are some of the key ones
Books
Insight to Heal
What does healing mean for Christians and others in an age of science? Human suffering demands that theology and science mutually inform each other in a shared understanding of nature, humanity, and paths to healing.
Mind Brain & the Elusive Soul
Does science argue against the existence of the human soul? I reinterpret the traditional doctrine of the soul as form of the body to frame contemporary scientific study of the human soul.
Designing XML Databases
When published in 2002, Designing XML Databases was the first single-author book on XML databases and the most comprehensive guide to XML-based database design for Web and enterprise environments.
KEY PUBLICATIONS
Using moral theology and psychology to develop moral AI
- M Graves. Embodied
Experience in Socially Participatory Artificial Intelligence. Zygon.
2023 (doi)
- M Graves. Apprehending AI Moral Purpose in Practical Wisdom. AI & Society. 2023 (springer share)
- M Graves. Theological Foundations for Moral Artificial Intelligence. Journal of Moral Theology. 11(Special Issue 1): 182-218. Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. 2022. (open access)
- M Graves. Emergent Models for Moral AI Spirituality. International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence – IJIMAI. 7(1): 7-15. Special Issue on AI, Spirituality, and Analogue Thinking. 2021. (open access)
- M Graves. Shared Moral and Spiritual Development Among Human Persons and Artificially Intelligent Agents. Theology and Science 15(3): 333-351. 2017. (doi)
Data science ethics for healthcare
- E Ratti
and M Graves. Explainable
Machine Learning Practices: Opening Another Black-Box for Reliable Medical AI. AI
and Ethics. 2:801–814. 2022. (open access)
- M Graves* and E Ratti*. Microethics for Healthcare Data Science: Attention to Capabilities in Sociotechnical Systems. The Future of Science and Ethics. 6:64-73. 2021. (online)
- E Ratti* and M Graves*. Cultivating Moral Attention: A Virtue-oriented Approach to Responsible Data Science in Healthcare. Philosophy & Technology. 34(4): 1819-1846. 2021. (open access)
- HJ Curzer, AC Epstein. The Virtuous Data Scientist and the Ethics of Good Science.Philosophy & Technology 35:46. 2022. (doi)
- M Graves* and E Ratti*. Who Is a Good Data Scientist? A Reply to Curzer and Epstein. Philosophy & Technology 35:52. 2022 (open access)
- Commentary:
- * Authors contributed equally
Semantic text analysis for moral psychology
- T Reilly, D Narvaez, M Graves, K Kaikhosroshvili, and S Israel de
Souza. Moral and Intellectual Virtues in
Practices: Through the Eyes of Scientists and Musicians. Palgrave, 2022. (publisher website; Amazon)
- M Graves, T Reilly, K Kaikhosroshvili, D Narvaez. Moral and
Intellectual Virtues: Computational Linguistic Analysis of Scientists and
Musicians Accounts. In Moral and
Intellectual Virtues in Practices: Through the Eyes of Scientists and Musicians,
edited by T Reilly, D Narvaez, M Graves, K Kaikhosroshvili, and S Israel de
Souz. Palgrave, 2022. (doi)
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M Graves. Semantic Analysis of Moral Values in
Semi-Structured Interviews. In Virtue and the Practice of Science: Multidisciplinary
Perspectives, edited by Celia Deane-Drummond, Thomas A. Stapleford, and
Darcia Narvaez. Center for Theology, Science, and Human Flourishing, Notre
Dame, Indiana. 2019. (ebook)
Emergent human systems
- M Graves. Interaction in Emergent Human Systems. Theology and Science. 21(2). 2023 (doi)
- M Graves. Places of Information Generation: Bridging Pannenberg’s Logos & Deacon’s Emerging Semiosis. Theology and Science 14(3): 305-324. 2016. (doi)
- M Graves. The Emergence of Transcendental Norms in Human Systems. Zygon 44(3). September 2009. (doi)
Spirituality & cognitive science
- M Graves. Habits of Theological Reason in Spiritual Formation. Spiritus 18: 35-61. Spring 2018. (pdf)
- M Graves. Grace and Virtue: Theological and Psychological Dispositions and Practices. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality 9(3): 303-308. August 2017. (doi)
- M Graves. Habits, Tendencies, & Habitus: Dispositions of Mind, Body & Person. In Habits in Mind: Ethics, Religion, and the Science of Virtue, edited by GR Peterson, JA Van Slyke, ML Spezio, and KS Reimer. Brill, 2017. (doi)
- M Graves. Gracing Neuroscientific Tendencies of the Embodied Soul. Philosophy and Theology 26(1): 97-129. 2014. (doi)
Aesthetics and nature
- HS Løvoll, K-W Sæther, M Graves. Feeling at Home in the Wilderness: Environmental Conditions, Well-Being, and Aesthetic Experience. Frontiers in Psychology. Research Topic on Environment, Art, and Museums: The Aesthetic Experience in Different Contexts. 11: 402. March 2020. (open access)
- M Graves, HS Løvoll, and K-W Sæther. Friluftsliv: Aesthetic and psychological experience of wilderness adventure. In Issues in Science and Religion: Nature and Beyond: Transcendence and Immanence in Science and Religion, Series Publication of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology. Springer. pp. 207-220. 2019 (doi)
- A Garcia-Rivera, M Graves, C Neumann. Beauty in the Living World. Zygon 44(2). June 2009 (doi)
Genome Databases (Links to older webpage/site)
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PhilPapers
Index of papers of interest to philosophers, with abstracts, categories, and links.
Index of papers of interest to philosophers, with abstracts, categories, and links.
Google Scholar
List of my papers and books according to Google, with links and related articles.
List of my papers and books according to Google, with links and related articles.
ResearchGate
List of research articles, often with full text links or easiest way to request a copy from me.
List of research articles, often with full text links or easiest way to request a copy from me.