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.