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Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of Wyoming
Areas: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency

Academic Writing

Teaching

Fall 2024 - Honors Seminar: Money

Spring 20242022, 2021, 2019, 2017, Fall 2017, 2016, 2015 - Philosophy of Religion

Spring 2024, Fall 2021, 2020 - Philosophy and Science Fiction

Fall 2023, 2021, 2018, 2014, Spring 2018 - Metaphysics

Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2019 - Critical Thinking

Fall 2022, 2020 - First Year Seminar: Philosophy as a Way of Life

Fall 2022, 2019 - Philosophy of Language

Spring 2022, 2020, 2013, Fall 2018 - Introduction to Philosophy

Spring 2021 - Seminar: Money

Spring 2020 - Seminar: Divine Hiddenness

Spring 2019 - Seminar: Metametaphysics

Spring 2018 - Philosophy and Human Nature

Fall 2017 - Philosophical Ethics

Spring 2016 - Logic

Spring 2014, Fall 2013 – Moral Problems

16. Presentism, Actualism, and Fatalism

             2023. Metaphysics 6(1), p.13–23

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15. Properties as Truthmakers

            Forthcoming. The Routledge Handbook on Properties, ed Anna-Sofia 

             Maurin and A.R.J. Fisher

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14. The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Cryptocurrency: Money Without State

            2021. Philosophy Compass 16 (11): 1-15

            (with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke)

 

13. The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Cryptocurrency: The Moral Landscape of Monetary Design

           2021. Philosophy Compass 16 (11): 1-15

           (with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke)

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12. Ways of Thinking about Ways of Being

           2021. Analysis 80 (4): 712–722

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11. Epistemic Duty and Implicit Bias

           2020. Epistemic Duties: New Arguments, New Angles. Routledge

           (ed Kevin McCain & Scott Stapleford)

           (with Lindsay Rettler)

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10. Quantification in the Ontology Room

           2019. dialectica 73 (4): 563-585

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9. Bundle Theory and the Identity of Indiscernibles (a dialogue)

            2019. Res Philosophica 96 (4): 495-508

            (with Philip Swenson)

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8. Mereological Nihilism and Puzzles about Material Objects

           2018. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 99 (4): 842-868 

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7. Analysis of Faith

           2018. Philosophy Compass 13 (9):e12517

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6. Grounds and 'Grounds'

          2017. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 47 (5): 631-655

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5. Object

          2017. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

          (with Andrew M Bailey)

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4. A Possible Worlds Solution to the Puzzle of Petitionary Prayer

         2017. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 9 (1): 179-186

         (with Ryan Matthew Parker)

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3. The General Truthmaker View of Ontological Commitment

         2016. Philosophical Studies 173 (5): 1405-1425

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2. Review of Ontology and Metaontology: A Contemporary Guide 

          2015. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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1. McTaggart and Indexing the Copula 

         2010. Philosophical Studies 158 (3): 431-434

Public Philosophy

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Writing

9. Bitcoin is For Anyone -- Left or Right (Archived here)

              USA Today, with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke

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8. Bitcoin Stands Apart from other Cryptocurrencies

               Cointelegraph, with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke

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7. Governments Should Invest in the Bitcoin Network

             Newsweek, with Andrew M Bailey

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6. Hard Forks are Fan Fiction

             CoinDesk

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5. Another Way to Think about Bitcoin's Value

             Bitcoin Magazine

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4. The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Bitcoin (PDF here)

              Institute for Art and Ideas

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3. An Orange New Deal 

              Bitcoin Magazine, with Andrew M Bailey

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2. On Confidently Misunderstanding Bitcoin

              Bitcoin Magazine

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1. Why Bitcoin Needs Philosophy

             CoinDesk, with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke


Speaking

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14. "Why We Make Bad Decisions", on FML FPL

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13. On What Bitcoin Did

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12. On the Progressive Bitcoiner Podcast

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11. On Julie Mason Mornings

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10. On What is Money (or podcast version)

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9. On This Week in Bitcoin (or podcast version)

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8. On the Digital Money Advisor Podcast

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7. How Bitcoin Can Help the Poor, with Scott Melker

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6. On the Cigars and Crypto Podcast

5. On the Smart People Sh*t Podcast

4. On
The Breakdown Podcast


3. On the Open to Truth Podcast

2. Religious Disagreement -- a video for WY middle/high schoolers

1. Introduction to Bitcoin -- a video for WY middle/high schoolers

Books

Articles

2. Resistance Money: A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin

             under contract with Routledge

             (with Andrew M Bailey and Craig Warmke)

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1. The Problem of Divine Personality

             under contract with Cambridge University Press

             (with Andrew M Bailey)

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