Associate Professor of Philosophy
Office: 443 Sutton Hall
E-mail: rives@iup.edu
Personal website
Education
Ph.D., University of Maryland at College Park (2005)
B.A., Illinois Wesleyan University (1999)
Courses
PHIL 101 Critical Thinking
PHIL 110 Reasoning and the Law
PHIL 120 Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 222 Ethics
PHIL 360 Philosophy of Mind
PHIL 410 Contemporary Analytic Philosophy
PHIL 420 Metaphysics
HNRC 101, 201 Honors College Core
Professional Interests
Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, Metaphysics
Select Publications
“Concept Cartesianism, Concept Pragmatism, and Frege Cases.” Philosophical Studies (2009) 144: 211-238.
“The Empirical Case Against Analyticity: Two Options for Concept Pragmatists.” Minds and Machines: Journal for Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, and Cognitive Science (2009) 19: 199-227.
“Why Dispositions are (Still) Distinct From Their Bases and Causally Impotent.” American Philosophical Quarterly (2005) 42: 19-31.
Select Presentations
“Can the Analytic Data Be Explained Away?” American Philosophical Association, Central Division, February 2009.
“Informational Atomism and Frege Cases.” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, April 2007.
“An Empirical Defense of Recognitional Concepts.” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March 2006.
