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MacLeod, Mary
Pedersen, Hans
Rives, Bradley
Rubenstein, Eric
Yan, Leo
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Bradley Rives
Professor of Philosophy
Office:
HSS
505J
Email:
rives@iup.edu
Personal website
Education
PhD, University of Maryland at College Park, 2005
BA, Illinois Wesleyan University, 1999
Courses
PHIL 100 Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 101 Critical Thinking
PHIL 122 Contemporary Moral Issues
PHIL 360 Philosophy of Mind
PHIL 390 Philosophy of Human Nature
PHIL 420 Metaphysics
PHIL 460 Philosophy of Language
HNRC 101, 201 Honors College Core
Professional Interests
Philosophy of Psychology
Philosophy of Mind
Metaphysics
Select Publications
“Concepts and Analytic Intuitions.”
Analytic Philosophy
(2016) 57: 285-314.
“Which Are the Genuine Properties?”
Metaphilosophy
(2015) 46: 104-126.
“Concept Cartesianism, Concept Pragmatism, and Frege Cases.”
Philosophical Studies
(2009) 144: 211-238.
"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.